Like A Fire by Ayanna Wimberly

What makes Like A Fire is the notion of womanhood as a burning house, and you are the burning house. But you are also the voyeur watching the house go up in flames. The writings in this collection were never intended as poems but perhaps convulsions onto paper. It’s what happens when a young woman attempts to temper being alone untethered in a very big, very real, very new alienating environment in more ways than one. In a way these writings were the extinguisher, although the fire can be the life as well. Like A Fire serves as a memory of the time in flux of being in college and having to learn or relearn my identity beneath the surface. The digging never stops.

“The poems in Ayanna Wimberly‘s new collection Like A Fire examine womenhood through the metaphor of a house in flames. Wimberly does this with remarkable precision in language that burns intensely throughout. Ayanna Wimberly is a rising poet of immense promise.

–Leah Huete de Maines