Graphite: Patricia Frazier Kusama Branded 20 bookmarks assembled into a

20 bookmarks assembled into a small pull-out book

He drinks tea without the slightest slurp

Dimensions: W-2

and politics

On the Nadir watch

Graphite: Patricia Frazier Kusama Branded 20 bookmarks assembled into aPatricia Fraziers Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city and state sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems. "Patricia Fraziers Graphite gathers us at the table and provides