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Digging Beneath Bones

by Teri Elam
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798899906367
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Finishing Line Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press
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  • Pages: 78
  • Original Price: USD 22.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 118 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

Digging Beneath Bones, teri elam's debut poetry collection, moves through the Inner Banks of North Carolina, through backroads to I-20 West to Augusta, all the way to San Francisco streets, then back to Atlanta. These poems travel the long road of memory, lineage, rupture, and return. Through the voice of a Black Southern woman, they illuminate a body shaped by rites of passage, moving through the comfort and discomfort of relationships, family, truth, and self.

The collection explores memory and the mind as idea, need, and loss, tracing how personal and ancestral histories carve identity. It offers a vivid portrait of caretakers, aunties, nieces, and Black boy joy, revealing the everyday rituals: music, television, myth, prayer, and the small altars of daily life that hold meaning across generations.

At its core, Digging Beneath Bones is a daughter's love letter to her mother. Through a kaleidoscope of broken and brilliant fragments, elam shines light on the bits of beauty, ache, inheritance, and testimony. These poems invite readers to look beneath the surface, to witness the infinite shapes memory can take, and to consider how we hold what we come from.

Elam, Teri: - teri elam is a poet, essayist, and screenwriter. She has been a Two Sylvias Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize and Perugia Press finalist. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism and Black Superheroes, Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, and Kwame Alexander's This Is The Honey. Her poem "Counterpoint," about legendary jewel thief Doris Payne, received honorable mention in december magazine's Jeff Marks Memorial Prize contest. A Cave Canem and The Watering Hole Graduate Poetry Fellow, elam has film and poetry reviews and artist interviews in Birmingham Poetry Review, Heavy Feather Review, Callaloo, The Rumpus, Incluvie, and Rough Draft Atlanta. @terielam.stories

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