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Truly a sublime experience.” —Jason Reynolds, author of Ain’t Burned All the Bright A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as \"Afropioneers\" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures. In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors—some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction— Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780143137139","publication_date":"20220830","publisher":"Penguin Publishing Group","slug":"golden-ax","subtitle":"","title":"Golden Ax"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POE005050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American Poetry","score":0.8011,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.7919,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7895,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"POE005050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American Poetry","score":0.8011,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.7919,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7895,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"POE005050","confidence_band":"high","label":"African American Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Place Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE023050","confidence_band":"high","label":"Family Poems","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"African American Poetry","score":0.8011,"slug":"african-american-poetry"},{"label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.7919,"slug":"hispanic-american-poetry"},{"label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7895,"slug":"place-poetry"}],"reader_fit":["For readers interested in Black history and the legacies of freedom"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Ruben Quesada"],"book_id":"9780826364388","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780826364388.jpg?v=77b8a0d7f5408e0c","score":0.7185,"title":"Latinx Poetics","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780826364388"},{"authors":["Elizabeth Acevedo"],"book_id":"9780062662811","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780062662811.jpg?v=53f6b34287813871","score":0.7098,"title":"The Poet X","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780062662811"},{"authors":["Eduardo C. 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