Inheritance: A Visual Poem | Elizabeth Acevedo + Pippins Black & African American Poetry told with lyrical text and

told with lyrical text and bright

Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years

using the words he knew as stepping-stones to help draw him into a story

An elephant makes a big poop

Tiara McKinney

Inheritance: A Visual Poem | Elizabeth Acevedo + Pippins Black & African American Poetry told with lyrical text andThey tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken word poem, author of the Pura Belpr winning novel in verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro Latinidad the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format