Muse Found in a Colonized Body Books "The book reveals the importance

"The book reveals the importance of food and community from diverse perspectives and encompasses Black cuisines from the Caribbean

but it also pieces us back together

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Muse Found in a Colonized Body Books "The book reveals the importanceIn the book's eponymous poem, Yesenia Montilla writes, "How do you not love yourself when you constantly survive your undoing just by being precious?" Muse Found in a Colonized Body answers this rhetorical question by populating itself with poems that range far and wide in content observing pop culture, interrogating history, resisting contemporary injustice but that share the spinal cord of unflinching love. As Rachel Eliza Griffiths notes,