Blessed Are the Peacemakers by Brionne Janae

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Blessed Are the Peacemakers by Brionne JanaeWinner of the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry PrizeAt once interested in the cyclical nature of domestic dysfunction and what we do when secrets of buried harm come to light, Blessed Are the Peacemakers asks what it means to make peace in the wake of intrafamilial violence and child sexual assault. These poems explore the ways the truth is often hidden behind layers of bleach and shame, and the ways we fail survivors by dismissing

act and begin to pick up the pieces to save our world

"A sharp-eyed debut

Richard Wright

of landscape

but find love that might one day lead to life outside of 'this system

Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes

current Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang

but of many kinds of Americans in relation to one another

showing us what we can do

this edition

The notes that became the poems were written over a period of time

On July 4th