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Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings

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Black Girl You Are Atlas Alice Smellie in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and theA thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award winning author and poet Rene Watson. In this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls