How It Happens

Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. HOW IT HAPPENS explores the world with eyes wide open and a willingness to engage the light and dark of it all while inviting the reader to imagine life as a black woman in today’s America. Young’s debut collection unfolds in its own sweet time–from intimate portraits to mystical incantations, while examining the multifaceted and resilient lyric I at the center of life’s contradictory forces–birth and death, desire and anger, memory and loss, resistance and acceptance.