by Nué Foster (Author)
From Chicago's 2020 Youth Poet Laureate, Waning is an imaginative yet grounded coming-of-age exploration.
As the moon cycles through phases of reflection, release, and recovery, the speaker in Nué's collection moves through their own transformative journey. Waning commits to interior questions of Blackness, witness, desire, forgiveness, and what it means to take up space in ways that are healing and liberatory. With wisdom and vulnerability, these lyrical poems interrogate labor in all its iterations: community, survival, and most importantly, who we show up whole for each of our evolving selves.Author Biography
Nué is a Blk queer artist from the far south side of Chicago where they call The Hundreds home. Chicago's 2020 Youth Poet Laureate, they're work has been featured at The Aids Foundation Chicago, BBC Radio, and Nike among others. They've performed their poetry at Pitchfork's Music Festival, Windy City Live, Newberry Library, Driehaus museum, Wndr Museum, and Young Chicago Authors' Louder Than A Bomb poetry festival in which they won in 2020 as an individual.
Number of Pages: 28
Dimensions: 0.24 x 5.83 x 0.5 IN
Publication Date: May 03, 2022