Everything Is Necessary by Keisha-Gaye Anderson

Poetry collection by Keisha-Gaye Anderson.  “Keisha-Gaye Anderson’s Everything Is Necessary brings readers into the intimate heart of a Jamaican-American woman’s complicated world. Her poetry explores the many ways in which the African Diaspora is carried within our bodies, on our tongues—from sufferings under enslavement to the precarity of modern American life. She uses migration stories and difficult family history to express the interplay of economic status, aspiration for something, anything better, harsh love, discipline, and courage. This is a necessary collection from a poet who is hitting her stride.” — PATRICIA SPEARS JONES, author of A Lucent Fire and winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize “Everything Is Necessary is a ‘controlled explosion.’ Anderson is not interested in tidy tales of familial fairytales or neatly packaged travesties—rather, the poet’s journey is that of meditation, reincarnation, and ancestral lineage inside the portal of her DNA (remember, remember, remember)