{"product_id":"breath-better-spent-living-black-girlhood-hardcover","title":"Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDamaris B. Hill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Netgalley \"Must-Read Books by Black Authors in 2022\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eA Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing\u003c\/i\u003e comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBreath Better Spent\u003c\/i\u003e, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a time when Black girls across the country are increasingly vulnerable to unjust violence, unwarranted incarceration, and unnoticed disappearance, Hill chooses to celebrate and protect the girl she carries, using the narrative-in-verse style of her acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eA Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing \u003c\/i\u003eto revisit her youth. There, jelly sandals, Double Dutch beats, and chipped nail polish bring the breath of laughter; in adolescence, pomegranate lips, turntables, and love letters to other girls' boyfriends bring the breath of longing. Yet these breaths cannot be taken alone, and as she carries her childhood self through the broader historical space of Black girls in America, Hill is forced to grapple with expression in a space of stereotype, desire in a space of hyper-sexuality, joy in a space of heartache. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaying homage to prominent Black female figures from Zora Neale Hurston to Whitney Houston and Toni Morrison, \u003ci\u003eBreath Better Spent \u003c\/i\u003einvites you to walk through this landscape, too, exploring the spaces--both visible and invisible--that Black girls occupy in the national imagination, taking in the communal breath of girlhood, and asking yourself: In a country like America, what does active love and protection of Black girls look like?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaMaris B. Hill, PhD, \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003e A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ean NAACP Image Award Finalist; \u003ci\u003eThe Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland;\u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003e \\Vi-ze-bel\\ \\Teks-chers\\(Visible Textures)\u003c\/i\u003e. As with her creative process, Hill's scholarly research is interdisciplinary. An Associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky and a former service member of the United States Air Force, she lives in Kentucky. www.damarishill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767536714016,"sku":"9781635576474","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/80f8844cdf4c73f7c3b23126dde8a105.webp?v=1780312806","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/breath-better-spent-living-black-girlhood-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}