If It Heals At All

If It Heals At All by Ali Black

“This book offers us a fully voiced Black poet with a deep understanding of love, family and community and the true difference between survival and thriving. Her poems explore many ways that love and danger catalyze her imagination. Love is a challenging theme for any poet, but in Black’s deft portrayals of her mother; her husband, the children wearing purple on a bus crossing her beloved Cleveland, that challenge is met. If It Heals At All is an excellent start for this poet’s publication’s journey and we get to be with her at the beginning.” Patricia Spears Jones