Mikaylah Simone--An Emerging African American Poet

NEW Poetry book release "My Manufactured English" by up and coming author Mikaylah Simone. Mikaylah Simone is an emerging African American poet whose simple, yet visceral, style shows through her affirmation of cultural identity and personal redemption. Mikaylah's debut book includes chapters of varying themes and layered meanings of politics, religion, violence, community and the complexity of love; revealing the fresh insight of this author's journey.

(PRWEB) June 8, 2004 -- NEW Poetry book release by up and coming author Mikaylah Simone.

The precision and elegance of a poets words can make readers pause to appreciate their own perceptions or examine their feelings. This can surely be said of one new poet--Mikaylah Simone. Mikaylah is an emerging African American poet whose simple, yet visceral, style brings poetry back to its basics as a social art through her affirmation of cultural identity and personal redemption. Leaving her home in the antebellum south with youthful dreams of grandeur, New York soon became the ideal stage for her one-woman show" of life, nothing that a well-written script or a college education could ever prepare her for. Out of a strong desire to transform her thoughts and experiences into art-Mikaylahs poetry communicates consciousness and passion pertaining to her SHORT lifetime observations of people, places and moments that have touched her.

Mikaylah Simone displays her liberating experimental form in her debut book of poetry My Manufactured English". Her provocative poetic style embraces cultural identity as she intermingles Swahili roots with modern issues in pieces such as Belly Full and Consciousness along with ancestral platforms found in Sankofa and Maji. This premiere work includes chapters of penetrating poetry concerning varying themes and layered meanings of politics, religion, violence, community and the complexity of love-all revealing the fresh insight of this authors journey that is honest, sad, comical and true.