Good Dress by Brittany Rogers
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781959030904
- Page Count
- 104
- Language
- English
- Imprint
- Tin House
Meet the Author
Brittany Rogers
Winner of the Lambda Award for Bisexual Poetry
Longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award
“A once-in-a-generation debut.”―Angel Nafis
“This self-assured, dazzling debut has a story to tell.”―Aricka Foreman
Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers’s Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community. They also nudge tenderly toward curiosity: What does it mean to belong to a person, to a city? Can intimacy and romance be found outside the heteronormative confines of partnership? And in what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be an anchor that returns us to ourselves?
Longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award
“A once-in-a-generation debut.”―Angel Nafis
“This self-assured, dazzling debut has a story to tell.”―Aricka Foreman
Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers’s Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community. They also nudge tenderly toward curiosity: What does it mean to belong to a person, to a city? Can intimacy and romance be found outside the heteronormative confines of partnership? And in what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be an anchor that returns us to ourselves?
Praise for Good Dress
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“An exuberant celebration of Black abundance. . . . there’s nary a reader that will read Brittany’s poetry and remain untouched".”
Publishers Weekly -
“Spectacular. . . . Amazing. . . . An elixir. . . . In every poem there are layers of phrasing and scene creation that astound…. Brittany Rogers better know this book is super fine. Purple dress fine. Lil’ Kim and Aaliyah fine. And exactly on time.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
“Includes place writing on Detroit and a challenging of heteronormativity in its contemplations of pleasure and intimacy. The poems tackle class, home, and Black womanhood.”
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