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The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination.
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Photographs and rhyming text describe children growing up in America today.
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In the Night Orchard is a retrospective collection of poems gleaned from over three decades of writing by a poet absorbed by nature and culture in the American South. These often-narrative poems are concerned with history, race, indigenous music, the many Southern dialects and customs and the quest for authentic identity. Skull, Grim, and Grinning I forgot how barbed wire snarls-- like a low bird's nest--caught the cold raccoon last winter. He found his own death there, and each snagged stage of ice, sun and hungry birds had a say as weeds blew and I found human obligations to occupy me. But after thaw I went walking, saw a twisted root (spring's first threat of snake), red eye- shape of new sumac leaves, deer tracks by the hundred, and on the rotted fence post polished to blinding shine by sun, the forgotten relic hung, a barbed cocoon coiled around a fanged white flower of bone.
Photographs and rhyming text celebrate the diversity of cultures, languages, countries, and people of the world.
A much-needed perspective on how to mother difficult adult children while balancing one’s own needs. Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for mothers who are confronted with the unexpected, burdensome, and even catastrophic dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment. Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, this book offers relatable, provocative, and, at times, shocking illustrations of the excruciating maternal dilemma: Which takes precedence—the needs of the mother or of the distressed adult child? With guidance for finding social support, staying safe, engaging in self-care, and helping the adult child, Difficult is a compassionate resource for those living in a family situation which too many keep secret and allows readers to see that they are not alone.
From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America * Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * "One Book One New Orleans" 2017 Book Selection * Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, The Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Academy of American Poets "So many of these poems just blow me away. Incredibly beautiful and powerful." -- Michelle Alexander, Author of The New Jim Crow "Counting Descent is a tightly-woven collection of poems whose pages act like an invitation. The invitation is intimate and g...
Written in the gothic tradition of James Dickey’s Buckdancer’s Choice, Brightwood contains thirty-eight poems set in the American South. This intellectual and emotionally powerful collection is an interplay of southern music, religion, and culture with nature. Driven by memories of life in the rural, segregated South, the poems seek out beauty in an attempt to stave off loneliness, pain, and loss. The lyrics are moving, the language crackles, and the past haunts every verse.