Muscadine Binding:Paperback and across the United States

and across the United States

Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments—when regrets

When their one-night stand unexpectedly evolves into something serious

The book won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award

Bear Bryant

Muscadine Binding:Paperback and across the United StatesA. H. Jerriod Avants debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grapes thick skin [that] teeth pierce breaks to pour sweetly across the tongue. Throughout these pages, a deeply Southern sensibility balances an environmental awareness of deficit and bounty appetite pains the stomach and delights the palette. In all seasons, the