(A)live Heart Romance is torn between her thirst

is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar’s walls

and cousins--for better or for worse

Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Meryl Wilsner

Rivers argues that by forging new kinds of family and childrearing relations

circus roustabouts

(A)live Heart Romance is torn between her thirstImani Sims' magical (A)live Heart brings the reader into a sacred space where language invites us to "gather in the living room and story tell the dead exploits of Black women." These poems explore the political, the personal, the public, and the private, all while acknowledging a hardship of pain and an ever present beauty and sensuality. (A)Live Heart is unapologetically built on the bones of Black women and is so powerful that when the poet says to