Renunciations: Poems Lesbian Studies Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography

Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party

these pages venture through the process of finding inner peace

anti-fascist protest

I tried to erase every memory of her

Renunciations: Poems Lesbian Studies Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiographyAn extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and