{"title":"Tara Betts","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"refuse-to-disappear-paperback","title":"Refuse to Disappear - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. In her third collection, Tara Betts speaks to all the silences that have been urged upon us, and especially upon Black women, by speaking boldly and without hesitation of truths lived and witnessed. Subjects range from the local diner to Simon Biles, from the story-rich past to the future we shape together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSays Cornelius Eady, \"In Refuse to Disappear, Tara Betts holds fire-sometimes, her poems are like beacons on a darkening day, sometimes her poems radiate the blaze of black women's voices, then and now, never to be forgotten, sometimes her lines flame up and unjust history is singed, and you read, like you've found that friend who puts language to that thing you felt but couldn't put words to, that home fire rescue. What a revelation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAracelus Girmay applauds: \"In Refuse to Disappear Tara Betts writes histories and lineages into lines, pleating language into reunion, tucking it into the page's pocket for another to find across time-gris-gris, amulet, 'my slingshot and my stone.' These poems shimmer with Betts's fierce, devoted attention to Black Life. Like poems by Audre Lorde and June Jordan, these poems refuse silence and forgetting. With love and clarity and fight, they face fire and speak: 'time may burn and i \/ refuse to disappear.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378319261919,"sku":"9781944585587","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HftuIhn6Xt9781944585587.webp?v=1789254389"},{"product_id":"break-the-habit-paperback","title":"Break the Habit - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her collection, Break the Habit, Tara Betts captures the compromised living of Black lives, the lives of Black women, an unravelling relationship, reclaiming self, and spooling spiders. It is an intimate telling of lives cut short, \"the slip downward\" of marriage, and a \"spark\" that resuscitates. Her writing breathes life into words with imagery that sweeps across a spectrum of emotions just like the bullet at a crime scene that \"went through the air\/past the trees\" to reappear with two lovers charging \"toward the bullet.\" Themes in Betts' collection range from the public to the private to the infinitesimal delicacy of a spider's web. They trace the path of finding self and asserting agency by \"kissing change on its mouth.\" Break the Habit is a candid conversation animated with the possibility of hope, and incandescent with honesty that shows readers what it means to break free. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378356846815,"sku":"9780996586436","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SMVACnkeJ-9780996586436.webp?v=1789254484"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tara-betts.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}