Amber McBride

"In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being "trouble" -- difficult, unruly, powerful, defiant -- is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth,...