SAY/MIRROR

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2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Finalist. JP Howards debut collection, SAY/MIRROR, is a dialogue of history and memory, reflecting on and integrating vintage photographs of her mother, Ruth King (a fairly well known African American runway model in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s) with snapshots from the poets own childhood. This manuscript began to emerge when Howard gained access to a large collection of her mothers modeling photos, as well as some local Harlem magazine and newspaper clippings, and was thereby offered a window into her heyday, begging comparison to and recollection of a complex motherhood away from the spotlight. Here is a project that seeks to use poetry as both memoir and biography, alongside the evocative nostalgia of vintage image a map from which Howard has pieced together the bright but uneven path of growing up in the shadow of a model mother. The atlas of SAY/MIRROR charts the islands of the poet and her mothers overlapping lives unearthing the shared experiences of a single parent and only child, coming to terms with each other in the 1970s and 80s: a socio-historical-emotional retelling of the life of a diva through a daughters eyes, with both parent and child learning to navigate the rocky terrain therein.JP Howards collection of poems is a raw reminder of the experience of motherhood and daughterhood. Her sharp memories of love and neglect; elegance, admiration and inadequacy leave a salty/sweet taste not soon forgotten. Jewelle GomezJuliet P. Howards porcelain collection of daughter memoirs is enough to break into you like fine China the shadow of her legacy hovering just above diva, the tenderness of grief stained just below doll. Anastacia TolbertPraise Juliet Howard for the wonderful ability to bring to life a mother whose beauty, seduction and danger challenge the notions of a young girl growing up in her shadow. SAY/MIRROR manages to capture with sharp detail and lively resonant language the ele

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