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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, Crystal.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2021.
- Summary:
- 2022 NAACP Image Award Winner Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakening, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- I
- 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
- II
- 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
- III
- 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
- Notes &
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780813151335
- 0813151333
- OCLC:
- 1253132009
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