Signs, Music: Poems Binding:Paperback Soledad Barnes has her life

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out

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but also as sources of defiant Black life

dethroned family—are mourning their father and caring for their sick mother

Que Mai Phan Nguyen

Signs, Music: Poems Binding:Paperback Soledad Barnes has her lifeStructured as a two part sequence poem, Signs, Music explores the before and after of becoming a father with tenderness and care the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the "hypothetical" and the "real" of fatherhood, the ways our own parents shape the parents we become, and how fraught with emotion, curiosity, and recollection this irreversible transition to fatherhood makes one's inner landscape. At once searching and bright, deeply rooted