How does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isnt silence? Where does quiet existand what liberating potential might it hold? These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and the inadequacies of language,Quietnavigates the tension between the impulse to guard ones inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, “your silence will not protect you.”