{"id":197,"date":"2021-04-01T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2021-06-09T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:52:58","slug":"standing-tall-even-when-the-room-is-crooked-arisa-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/2021\/04\/01\/standing-tall-even-when-the-room-is-crooked-arisa-white\/'","title":{"rendered":"Standing Tall Even When the Room is Crooked: ARISA WHITE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bianca Stone talking with the poet, Arisa White about her incredible new book “Who’s Your Daddy,” from Augury Book<\/a>s We discuss everything from the hybridity of memoir and poetry, to the epistolary documentarian forms of writing, to the incredible transformation that can happen in the time it takes to really create a manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSomewhere nearing its end, Arisa White says of Who\u2019s Your Daddy, it\u2019s \u201ca portrait of absence and presence, a story, a tale, told in patchwork fashion . . .\u201d This exactly says what Who\u2019s Your Daddy is, though it doesn\u2019t say all it takes to do justice to the mythic paradox an absent parent guarantees a child, young or grown, or what it takes to live with and undergo such birthright. There\u2019s not only a father\u2019s absence and presence, there\u2019s a mother who says \u201cyou raise your daughters, and love your sons,\u201d there are stepfathers, uncles, aunts, cousins, a grandmother, brothers, lovers, all of whom leave their marks and give and take love. Surrounding the whole book hovers the questions do I forgive him, and is forgiveness possible?<\/em> This beautifully, honestly conceived genius of a book shook me to the core.\u201d \u2014Dara Wier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arisa White <\/strong>is a Cave Canem fellow and an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. She is the author of four books, including the poetry collection You\u2019re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened<\/em>, and coauthor of Biddy Mason Speaks Up<\/em>, winner of the Maine Literary Book Award for Young People\u2019s Literature and the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Middle- Grade Nonfiction. She serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press. Find her at arisawhite.com<\/a>. (Photo: Nye’ Lyn Tho) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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