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In these poems, the writer walks us back down the road she first walked as a girl, wanders us through the trees that lined the road where she grew up, where her sensibilities as a woman and a writer were first laid bare. In one of the first poems that opens the collection, she is a woman looking bac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkinson, Crystal (Autor)
Otros Autores: Davis, Ronald W., 1967- (Ilustrador), Finney, Nikky (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Nikky Finney
  • Terrain ; Baptism (Flatwoods, Kentucky, 1972) ; Cousin ; Black Rapunzel ; Asking about My Mother ; The Water Witch on Salvation ; The Water Witch on Invasion ; The Water Witch on Reading ; O Tobacco ; The Visit ; Dig If You Will the Picture ; Slow Dance ; The Creek
  • My Father Was a City ; Beyond the White Canvas ; August 9, 1974 ; Wet Nurse ; The Bath ; Dropsy ; Death March ; Dear Johnny P ; Mother's Day ; Bones ; Ole Fashioned ; Black Farmer ; Press ; Dirge ; Black Body ; A Meditation on Grief ; On Being Country
  • Bloodroot ; Kitchen Ghosts ; Snow Falls Like a Scorned Woman's Tears ; Black & Fat & Perfect ; Witness ; Coming of Age ; Dance ; Homestead ; Heritage ; Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts ; Motherland ; Winter.