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Books by Arisa White
  | | Biddy Mason Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice) by Arisa White, Laura Atkins, Laura Freeman Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by Heyday ISBN-13: 978-1-59714-403-2, ISBN: 1-59714-403-7 "Building on the brilliance of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the newest installment in the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to another real-life champion for civil rights: Bridget “Biddy” Mason, an African American philanthropist, healer, and midwife who was born into slavery. When Biddy arrived in California, where slavery was technically illegal, she was kept captive by her owners and forced to work without pay. But whe ..." |
 | | Black Pearl (Paperback) by Arisa White Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2016 by Nomadic Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-9970933-1-5, ISBN: 0-9970933-1-5 "Her poems consider what it requires to meditate and meet what's unknown without flinching."--Dara Wier "In this book, feelings are imperative, as is an imperative depth of self awareness, one that brings the reader to the edge." |
 | | You're The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2016 by Augury Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9887355-7-6, ISBN: 0-9887355-7-1 "Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Poetry. Angular, smart, and fearless, Arisa White's newest collection takes its titles from words used internationally as hate speech against gays and lesbians, reworking, re-envisioning, and re- embodying language as a conduit for art, love, and understanding. "To live freely, observantly as a po ..." |
 | | Who\ s Your Daddy by Arisa White Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2021 by Augury Books ISBN-13: 978-1-936767-61-8, ISBN: 1-936767-61-9 "A genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer, Black, Guyanese American woman who, while seeking to define her own place in the world, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father." |
 | | Hurrah's Nest (Cedar Tick Natural History Chapbook) by Arisa White Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Virtual Artists Collective ISBN-13: 978-0-944048-01-6, ISBN: 0-944048-01-3 "A vivid and varied collection that addresses family loyalties, dysfunction, violence, and differences, Hurrah's Nest is White's imaginative and emotionally honest exploration of growing up the second oldest, first daughter of seven siblings. Childhood experiences are looked at with rawness, sensitivity, and crafted with precision: be it the cutting of her dreadlocks, mother's abortion, drug trafficking, or her sister's developmental dis ..." |
 | | A Penny Saved (Paperback) by Arisa White Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 2012 by Willow Publishing, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-9852877-6-4, ISBN: 0-9852877-6-4 "The range of emotional incision in A PENNY SAVED cuts open many of our ugliest and most hidden domestic veins, patriarchal abuse. This book is the good lyric hurt that triumphs!"—Thomas Sayers Ellis" |
 | | Trespass Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries ofPlace, Identity, and Feminism by May-Lee Chai, Belle Boggs, Camille T. Dungy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lauret E. Savoy, Arisa White, Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2019 by Lookout Books ISBN-13: 978-1-940596-29-7, ISBN: 1-940596-29-7 "“Perhaps a future of environmental writing begins in trying to meet all people where they are, wherever they are,” writes Lauret E. Savoy. “It’s acknowledging and honoring difference as enriching.” In Trespass , twenty women essayists challenge the traditional boundaries of place-based writing to make room for greater complexity: explorations of body, sexuality, gender, and race. Traveling across time and place―from a Minnesota summer c ..." |
 | | Theaster Gates Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories: Reflections Format: Paperback by Other Theaster Gates, Daisy Desrosiers, Krista Aronson, Dorothy Berry, Danielle M. Conway, Elizabeth Finch, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Lareese Hall, Lynn Mckinley-Grant, Erin Murphy, Asma Naeem, Ellen Y. Tani, Arisa White, Briana Williams Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2021 by Delmonico Books/D.A.P. 2021-12-07 ISBN-13: 978-1-63681-008-9, ISBN: 1-63681-008-X "A multidisciplinary look at the foremost archive of Black American visual culture, as recast by Theaster Gates This book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, a ..." |
 | | Post Pardon by Arisa White 29 Pages, Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-9830435-2-2, ISBN: 0-9830435-2-3 |
 | | About a Girl a Novella in Verse by Natasha Dennerstein, Richard Loranger, M. K. Chavez, Pip Adam, Arisa White Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2017 by Norfolk Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60052-142-3, ISBN: 1-60052-142-8 "This novella-in-verse follows the travails of a Girl, through childhood sexual abuse to eventual addiction, prostitution, jail and psychiatric facilities. The possible redemption for her comes in the form of love from her man, Mack, which may or may not save her. We meet all the characters involved from her brother to the store detective, the social worker, the psychiatrist and her best friend, Steffie." |
 | | Your Impossible Voice #1 Your Impossible Voice Journal by Jessica Hagedorn, Gillian Conoley, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Pattie Mccarthy, Arisa White, Stacey Levine, Peter Kline, Alejandra Costamagna, Aisha Ahmad, Christopher Hennessy, Steve Davenport, Alvin Lu, Colette Dedonato, Mathew Roberson, Daniel Borzutzky, Abeer Hoque, Lisa Williams, Joe Wenderoth Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2014 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5233-8508-9, ISBN: 1-5233-8508-1 "The debut issue of Your Impossible Voice features new work from Guggenheim Fiction Fellow Jessica Hagedorn set in San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin District, new poems from Pushcart Prize winner Gillian Conoley, newly translated work from award-winning Salvadoran author Horacio Castellanos Moya, and poetry from Oakland’s own Cave Canem Winner and California Book Awards Finalist Arisa White. Other notable writers appearing in issue one i ..." |