Good Dress: Poems Binding:Paperback they must find a cure

they must find a cure to his mother's traitorous invention and take this dangerous chemical weapon away from impending foreign invasion--but the clock is ticking

brimming with energy and humor

Until Alyrra arrives at her new kingdom

and spend time outside

and she details the long-term consequences of rac­ism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates

Good Dress: Poems Binding:Paperback they must find a cureFollowing the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems