Black girl magic & other elixirs

Black girl magic & other elixirs by shantell hinton hill is an important poetry collection about the embodied experiences of a '90s Black girl growing up in the American South and how those experiences shaped her becoming a Black woman. Within, shantell recalls moments of playing hide and seek as a means of survival, trauma attached to bologna, the essence of her mother embodied in a fragrance, and even a favorite moment with her first and forever homegirl, her grandma. She weaves together s