Kara Jacksons Bloodstone Cowboy is a reclamation of her lineage an affirmation of self and a declaration of her right to contain multitudes. These poems from the 2019 National Youth Poet Laureate complicate the definition of womanhood troubling what it means to live in a body and love it. A complex and resilient love permeates Jacksons writing from anthems praising her full belly to poems grappling with sortof love for her midwestern hometown. Drawing on the rich traditions of Lucille Clifton a