and letters which share all the gossip and
and recognizes the local as inseparable from the global
mess is a unit of measure
The melodrama receives respect
encouragement to share and value memories
Dope Calisthenics Author|Tracy Moore and letters which share allSylvia Jones's sophomore collection examines the pressure exerted on working class Black life by spectacle, debt, inheritance, and the market's endless demand for performance. The poems move through Baltimore, television, retail language, protest remnants, and borrowed speech, tracking how public feeling hardens into product and how survival becomes a style others learn to consume. Class aspiration and class entrapment, the theater of mobility, and