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“Before I Lie”: by Dralandra Larkins (Book Baby, $25)

I’m Black, brilliant, beautiful, wise!/Anxious and ambitious./A mystic./I am not your statistic./Passionate and persistent./A dreamer, multi-gifted./A generational curse breaker./A builder./I am not a maybe./I am not negotiable. — from “Before I Lie.”

Dralandra Larkins is on the rise in the Twin Cities literary community with a debut collection and a spot on the cover of the September issue of Minnesota Women’s Press. Poet Danny Klecko, who has read with Larkins and watched her dynamic onstage presence, says she’s someone to watch.

In her debut collection, Larkins writes in-your-face autobiogr

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