{"id":45635,"date":"2016-02-15T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45635"},"modified":"2018-05-20T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T00:58:57","slug":"braided-skin-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45635","title":{"rendered":"Braided Skin, Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Braided Skin, Poems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mother Tongue Publishing<\/a>
\n2015-03-15
\n96 pages
\n8″ x 6″
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-896949-50-5<\/p>\n

Chelene Knight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Braided Skin<\/em> is the vibrant telling of experiences of mixed ethnicity, urban childhood, poverty and youthful dreams through various voices. Knight writes a confident rhythm of poetry, prose and erasure by using the recurring image of braiding\u2013a different metaphor than \u201cmixing,\u201d our default when speaking the language of race. In the title poem \u201cBraided Skin,\u201d this terminology shifts, to entwining and crossing, holding together but always displaying the promise or threat of unravelling. This is just as all tellings of family, history and relationships must be\u2013\u201cSkin that carries stories of missing middles.\u201d When speaking about race, Knight raises the question, then drops it, and the image becomes other objects, then abstraction, and memory\u2013finally becoming something \u201cshe breathes in\u201d actively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Braided Skin” is the vibrant telling of experiences of mixed ethnicity, urban childhood, poverty and youthful dreams through various voices. Knight writes a confident rhythm of poetry, prose and erasure by using the recurring image of braiding\u2013a different metaphor than \u201cmixing,\u201d our default when speaking the language of race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,19,8,1617],"tags":[22979,22980],"class_list":["post-45635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-chelene-knight","tag-mother-tongue-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56445,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45635\/revisions\/56445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}