Map of My Want Assimilation grandmothers

grandmothers

and as critiques of systemic oppression forcing some to countdown their last heartbeat

But like the fireflies that fill the mountains around them

and many other voices

and The Artist Date

Map of My Want Assimilation grandmothersFrom the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks's second collection explores the question, Where do our desires take us? An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal essay "Uses of the Erotic," Hicks's A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal and the political, a crossroads to which their sexual liberation brought them after their escape from a religious cult. Lyrically, Hicks