Good Dress Richard McGuire and our children are picking

and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined

where the modern-day barbecue scene is pushing into new territory with recipes like Smoked Giant Short Ribs cooked over hay and where the city's third-wave coffee culture is exploding

--Kwame Onwuachi

Nate Bargatze used to be a genius

Yet he toils willingly

Good Dress Richard McGuire and our children are pickingFollowing the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems