“Book Descriptions: Martheaus Perkins' The Grace of Black Mothers brims with grace, nuance, and artistry, drawing a complex and bountiful Black world in the face of anti-Blackness and drawing upon the knowledge, wit, and wondrousness of Black mothers, ancestors, a boundless Black world.
Perkins' formal play and aesthetic daring, social critique and political engagement, and assured skill and fearlessness at going where these poems must go herald an important new talent!
-John Keene, author of Punks:; Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), Counternarratives: Stories; Novellas (New Directions, 2015/Fitzcarraldo, 2016) and other works.” DRIVE