Alternating Current Press, paperback
Publication Date: November 7, 2023
Publisher Marketing: This collection tells stories for those who can't. Those who are scared. Those who are silenced. Those who need an extra push. BLACK HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE ANGRY evinces the notion that Black people—and Black women, especially—are angry, and that this anger is more than justified. Skillfully weaving bloody history lessons, the Black body as scientific experiment, and the contemporary world of police violence, systemic racism, and feminism into the narrative of modern society, Ashley Elizabeth's gut-punching poems allow space for thought, remembrance, and reflection on the lives taken too soon and what we can do to fight the power.
