(A)live Heart Romance It's the first summer after

It's the first summer after his parents' divorce

Rivers argues that by forging new kinds of family and childrearing relations

Now all heck has broken loose

Wonder Boi Writes

But when Sunai wakes up in the bed of the one man he never should have slept with

(A)live Heart Romance It's the first summer afterImani Sims' magical (A)live Heart brings the reader into a sacred space where language invites us to "gather in the living room and story tell the dead exploits of Black women." These poems explore the political, the personal, the public, and the private, all while acknowledging a hardship of pain and an ever present beauty and sensuality. (A)Live Heart is unapologetically built on the bones of Black women and is so powerful that when the poet says to