Download or read book Still Swingin' written by Tonya Maria Matthews and published by Three Sistahs Press, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Lucille Clifton before her, Matthews politicizes the magic of hips that are "wide as hell." She let's readers in on the mystery and often the fear of black girl hips hat can 'stop crap games on shady ghetto corners. Wide enough to birth fat black baby boys."She tells us to swing proud, swing wide, swing universal and always swing love. A young, womanist voice, Matthews' poems are not for those who believe in art for art's sake. Matthews is clear about where she stands as a woman today, historically where she has been, and where we need to be going as a people