Person, perceived girl - A. A. Vincent

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• PERSON, PERCEIVED GIRL is poetry collection that explores Blackness--specifically queer, Midwestern, disabled, and transracially adopted Blackness.
• Poems in this manuscript explore identity, lineage, and body.
• The theological underpinnings of the collection enliven our soulless American conversations of inheritance, race, and belonging.
• Vincent is writing from a 'divine distance, ' from a perceived distance, but these poems are attentive, they are close, they 'inhabit our prayers with cure and cry.' PERSON, PERCEIVED GIRL is a glorious debut! --Arisa White In a society defined by binaries, PERSON, PERCEIVED GIRL thankfully exists elsewhere.
• Vincent's voice is youthful and wise in its lyrical examination of what it means to exist as ( )--to be simultaneously inside and outside the circles that define our living.
• The weight of a last name, the real love found in an honest eye, the trouble tethering of colonialism and religion--PERSON, PERCEIVED GIRL considers what defines a person to themselves and to others without bending to the latter will--the poet is too concerned with nurturing their own gardens, capturing the hours you may have missed: 'I applaud their leaves for blooming unapologetically / as they unfurl � day by day.' Unapologetically Black, queer, and disabled, this is a poet cognizant of time and resonance.
• And these poems bear the fruit of that awareness with a disarming intimacy.--Randy James 'A body is a verb: closer to a kiss & closer to a reply' writes A.A.
• Vincent in a series of poems that explore bodies and their relationship to family, to social groups, and to the universe wherein a queer Black woman with disabilities adopted into a white family must learn the limits of understanding and love.
• The poems are deep and ask discomforting questions like why 'so much of the world is in strife with its body & its soul/hiding sickness in its prayers for goodness.' A marvelous collection for young readers as well as recalcitrant older readers.
• Lift it up and let it lift you up and change you.--D.A.