Pale Hairs Reach Between Us by Allie Kerper bulletin from the Youth Association

from the Youth Association

] These poems are as subtle and complex as the insidious relationships they illustrate

this is poetry as lyric essay

Breakfast at the Origami Café

Steeped in the divine light of Black womanhood

Pale Hairs Reach Between Us by Allie Kerper bulletin from the Youth AssociationAllie Kerper's debut collection gets close up with human intimacy. What's really important in human relationships? Kerper's startling imagery and diction never settle for easy, conventional answers. Love, faith, sex, identity, queerness all come under her microscope, and are viewed with precision, rigour and tenderness. 'I absolutely adored Pale Hairs Reach Between Us. This debut collection is simply staggering in its range, its complexity, and its