How to bloom… and other acts of guerrilla warfare Emerald Carter

"I want to tell you how it happened,
who did it, and where it hurts.
I'll let you tell me why."

A retrospective on Black womanhood, the contradictions of empire, and the grief born of unrequited love. The lyrical prose and poetry celebrate divinity, interrogate the beauty of loss, and ultimately honor writing as an antidote to mortality. In this book, Carter contemplates how to grow in spite of and in light of darkness.