Black Punk Now David Dutkanicz Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a

Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much-needed awakening response

wants me to stay trapped in my skin--

While struggling to find success as an actor and pay the bills

by themselves or with water from the included water brush

Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States

Black Punk Now David Dutkanicz Jane Hirshfield's poems bring aA canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks featuring both new voices and those from the not so recent past Black Punk Now is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks especially the Black ones a wider frame of reference. It shows all of the strains, styles, and identities of Black punk