Overview

Rage, Resistance and Redemption is a raw, hard, and deep exploration into a variety of lived experiences through a variety of timelines within the Black community. The themes are not for the faint of heart, but for those looking to examine the cost of survival without healing in our community and the cost of a lost and fragmented identity. The collection of poems humanizes each POV, whether good or bad and the traumas which can arise from unhealed wounds. Many labels are taken off, and the humanity of a great nation of people are explored at an individual and community level. Each poem is design to celebrate our beauty and divinity, as well as explore our rage, destruction, and our subsequent heartache. If we are angry, the collection explores the reasons for communal and individual anger. If we are not unified, there is a poem which explores the potential reasons as to why and the damages that thrive due to our disunity. There are poems to empower, confirm and justify everything that can and does make both the Black feminine and masculine divine.

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""Forcefully Taken,"" the fiery opener, describes the harrowing experience of violation and ""the weight of oppression, its jealousy and lust."" The speaker endures physical and emotional pain, likening the body to a ""diamond under pressure."" Kirkus Reviews ""Guineamen"" reflects on the brutal history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The poet juxtaposes joyful memories of freedom, when ""Freewill crowned each step of life- / life was bright as the day once,"" with the horrors of enslavement, when ""Harvested like maize, / resisting bodies lay lifeless in heaps."" Body language, silence, and the power of words factor heavily into Millwood's work...."" Kirkus Reviews In a critique of performative allyship, in ""Do Not"" Millwood writes, ""Do not pretend to understand, / when you are part of the problem / by being silent, by downplaying, / by casually dipping your feet in torrid waters....Millwood excels at conveying deep emotional experiences through vivid and evocative imagery...."" Kirkus Reviews ""Her similes are equally strong... Millwood's voice is direct and unapologetic, and she forces readers to confront their own perceptions and misconceptions around Blackness....""Black Gold,"" when the poet asserts, ""We are Jewels in human form, great beings to behold. / Calm as a summer's day or as violent as a winter's storm. / Walking the earth with majesty. / All who see them, bow in awestruck captivity."" Kirkus Reviews ""Millwood also celebrates Black identities, proclaiming, ""My Black is the type of black that brings forth life. / My Black breeds abundance in lack"" Kirkus Reviews

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Simone Millwood is a community focused creative with a mission to share, educate and empower her community through the power of the Arts and communication. Growing up in a large Jamaican Household, Simone was born with two overly intelligent and hardworking parents, a plethora of siblings from all backgrounds and an extended family that provided a strong and consistent cultural influence in her life.This created Simone's love of the arts and it is part of Simone's life work to infuse the creative arts with African and Caribbean Culture to create a heavy focus on empowerment through the control of the creating and owning our own narrative. Simone seeks to build beyond the trauma placed on and within the community to explore its unyielding greatness and its ability to thrive in all situations and conditions. Simone has worked primarily within the arenas of Theatre, Film and Television and is on a mission to own, operate and control her own production company, film studios and Theatres.

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