Books
I Am Woman
Accents Publishing's first poetry collection by Affrilachian poet Yvonne Johnson, I Am Woman, is an exploration of how patriarchal societies define womanhood. Many women find themselves in a world where rape culture and purity culture dominate how they view their body and what it means to be a woman. This chapbook confronts many topics from the sexualization of the female body and a lack of sexual education to experiences of sexual abuse and the complexities of gender. "Yvonne M. Johnson's poetry possesses an unflinching honesty and lyrical beauty even in the midst of painful subjects. The poems of I am Woman are strongly womanist and Affrilachian. Johnson explores the nuances of gender and sexuality with lyrical compassion and gives female bodies voice."—Kelly Norman Ellis
A Brief Natural History of an American Girl
Winner of the Editor's Choice award in the Accents 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest. "In A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, Sarah Freligh pulls you into the car of a 1950's girlhood and you stay, compelled by the journey through sexual awakening and into womanhood. It's a difficult story. The narrator loses a lot—she gives kisses to the boss at Donut Delite, her virginity to a boy in a cornfield, her body to men she knows, or doesn't. She gives away a baby. She buries her mother. And hope, how 'easy to give her away.' And yet not quite. Through the accumulation of experience, through the ability to look clearly and name what she sees, Freligh insists on possibility. The poems draw our attention, then elicit a shiver of recognition. This is what one girlhood looks like; this is what human experience looks like. The journey is not over, she reminds us. You 'are not there yet.' - Wendy Mnookin, Author of The Moon Makes Its Own Plea. Limited availability. Please contact accents.publishing@gmail.com before ordering this book.
Numbered Bones
"Bobby Steve Baker pulls out the scalpel and cuts away the superficial and unsecured, slicing through the flesh of lust and musculature of ego until he reaches his own Numbered Bones. Choices are scars chiseled into the body. The bedrock of self is uncovered through the struggle and search for love. The wounds are perfect in their shape." - Eric Sutherland, Author of Incommunicado Limited availability. Please contact accents.publishing@gmail.com before ordering this book.