“Burning Sugar is a vigilant time marker and vivid place maker. The bearings of colonial violence and of Black resistance are physically present on every page of this debut collection by Cicely Belle Blain.”
- Amber Dawn, author of My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems
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- Amin Ghaziani, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Read More“Each poem pulls its teeth from the book's title and offers the soft and deliberate sweetness of what could have been - before the burning.”
- Jillian Christmas, author of The Gospel of Breaking
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