How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

This Wednesday, 11/18, the Casita Maria Book Club begins the passionate memoir How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones. In 2015, after the release of his poetry collection, Prelude To A Bruise, Danielle Jackson interviewed Jones for our sister publication Mosaic.

Danielle Jackson: And there’s this hyper-realistic layer for black men.
Saeed Jones: Right, it’s kind of like threefold. So you have “be a man” just in general. And then you have be a black man because you are in a dangerous world, you are already in peril, everything born black also burns. You gotta be twice as good to get twice as far. So that version of masculinity, black masculinity, which is –I am preparing you for a brutal world. Strangely, it’s a violence that is also an act of love. People think this is how I love my son. Toughening you up.

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones, 204 pgs
WEDNESDAYS 7-830P
11/18: pgs 1-49, chapters 1-6
11/25: pgs 50-98, chapters 7-11
12/2: pgs 99-152, chapters 12-17
12/9: pgs 153-196, chapters 18-end.
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