Please make me pretty, I don't want to die by Tawanda Mulalu John Greening author of bone and The

author of bone and The Terrible

It's a hand in a velvet glove

the memory of trauma

a reclamation of stolen ancestors

Please make me pretty, I don't want to die by Tawanda Mulalu John Greening author of bone and ThePlease make me pretty, I dont want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in