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The Body has Memories by Adrienne Danyelle Oliver

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ISBN: 978-1-955239-23-3
Imprint: Nomadic Press
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Categories Chapbooks, Nomadic, Poetry

the body has memories

Dr. Adrienne Danyelle Oliver

Publication Date: February 5, 2022

Description

In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. the body has memories was originally published by Nomadic.

In her debut poetry chapbook, the body has memories, Adrienne Danyelle Oliver gives voice to being and becoming the whole self. While memory may in its traditional sense be the discoveries of a single individual, Oliver is very aware that the act of remembering is a much greater collective process. It is the historical dialogues among the ancestors and the living. Memories dwell not just within the mind, but are made up from the struggles and triumphs of one’s entire existence.

Oliver invites us to enter, to embody and to embrace these poems through three very personal portals “the physical, the mental and the heart.” Yet no matter where you are in your exploration of this work, you too become aware of the vulnerability and fragility of the body and of the mind, if left on its own.

Praise

The body has memories, is a BODY of work residing in the BLACK FEMALE BODY. The cover, pages, and ink—skin, organs & blood; conjuring the story of a life marked by moments of invasion, healing, and the reflections of both. Oliver’s work is a monument to the memories of her flesh recollected in the service of grief, growth, and knowing. The body has memories, is a testimony to will carved from the center of personal riptides, a recitation, and affirmation of being.
– Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, Ph.D., Poet Laureate, Oakland CA, Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame

the body has memories is an exciting collision of epigenetic and personal history. Underneath the question of “who(se) am I?”, adrienne danyelle oliver unapologetically plumbs the depths and heights of an imposed and reclaimed identity with candor and grace.
– Airea D. Matthews, Prize Recipient, Yale Series of Younger Poets, author of Simulacra

About the Author

Dr. Adrienne Danyelle Oliver

Dr. Adrienne Danyelle Oliver is a poet-educator, hip-hop scholar from Little Rock, AR currently living in the SF Bay Area. She enjoys reflecting on and writing about intergenerational healing. Her published chapbooks, collective madness (Finishing Line Press) and the body has memories (Black Lawrence Press), include these reflections. Part poetry, part memoir, part dream, these chapbooks are the beginning of a liberation she hopes to witness among all bodies harboring historical trauma. Some of Adrienne’s favorite authors include Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. When she is not writing, Adrienne leads well-being writing circles for Black scholars and helps people of the global majority (PGM) to heal from racial and socioeconomic trauma so they can share their stories with the world. She also curates Black Gold Storytellers, an award-winning intergenerational storytelling circle featuring elders who have migrated from the South.

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