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Cover credits: Cover design: Christa Schoenbrodt, Studio Haus / Cover painting: Igor Solis,
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"This is a smart, daring first book of poems. Driven by Smith's raging
desire of imagination, many of these often quiet poems describe
something that's not there with deft grammar reaching toward
possibility." —Listed as one of eight best poetry books in Black Issues Book Review |
Price: $14.00 USD
Poetry 1-55597-391-4, 72 pages, Paper
Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Confronting
loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold
between child- and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from
the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she
writes, “I was anyone I wanted to be.” With language and sequences
inflected with Mexican culture, with the shifting urban landscape, and
with the spiritual concern for rendering small justices, these poems
offer an exciting new voice.
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