Difficult Fruit

Difficult Fruit

Difficult Fruit names and claims the fruits of a passage into<br> womanhood. This is a journey which includes coming to terms<br> with sexual violence and loss, celebrating love and connection,<br> and bearing witness to the world that shaped that journey. These<br> poems are urgent as the most sincere prayers, full of vulnerability,<br> doubt, conviction and hope. With the authority of a poet who has<br> reflected deeply on her experience, and shaped technical giftedness<br> into accomplished craft, Lauren K. Alleyne's poems affirm again<br> and again the capacity of poetry to discover beauty in the midst of<br> human duress.