Butcher IL - Saeed Jones

- Saeed Jones

the loss in Sabrina Benaim’s poems arrives as a roadmap

What a gift this collection is to my Black soul

heartfelt collection that makes the reading an experience

Launching from a critical praxis into a praxis of being

Butcher IL - Saeed JonesNatasha T. Miller, 2021 Butcher is a book about love & loss about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor Miller, explores addiction, family & tragedy. Butcher takes the body of a cow and cleaves it into 5 parts: envisioning the cuts as relationship with family members and social forces. Her Mother the