Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Quiet Victoria Adukwei Bulley

A thrilling Black British poet making her American debut explores the importance of quiet in producing forms of community, resistance, and love

How does one encounter meaning amidst so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isnt silence? Where does quiet exist and what liberatory potential might it hold? These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and the inadequacies of language, Quiet navigates the tension between the impulse to guard ones inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, "your silence will not protect you."
 
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