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A collection of lyrics and prose about Blackness, racism, and political awareness.

Table of Contents
Foreword Section 1 Terrain Baptism (Flatwoods, Kentucky 1972) Cousin Rapunzel Redux 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 Section 2 My Father Was a City Beyond the White Canvas August 9, 1974 Wet Nurse The Bath Dropsy Death March Dear Johnny P: Dreams & Reality Bones Ole Fashioned Black Farmer Press Dirge My Black Body On Being Country Section 3 Bloodroot Kitchen Ghosts Snow Falls Like a Scorned Woman's Tears Black & Fat & Perfect Witness Coming of Age Dance How to Make a Smile Becoming Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts Motherland Winter Notes & Acknowledgements

Perfect Black

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    A Hardback by Crystal Wilkinson, Nikky Finney, Ronald W. Davis

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      Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/08/2021
      ISBN13: 9780813151151, 978-0813151151
      ISBN10: 0813151155

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of lyrics and prose about Blackness, racism, and political awareness.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword Section 1 Terrain Baptism (Flatwoods, Kentucky 1972) Cousin Rapunzel Redux 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 Section 2 My Father Was a City Beyond the White Canvas August 9, 1974 Wet Nurse The Bath Dropsy Death March Dear Johnny P: Dreams & Reality Bones Ole Fashioned Black Farmer Press Dirge My Black Body On Being Country Section 3 Bloodroot Kitchen Ghosts Snow Falls Like a Scorned Woman's Tears Black & Fat & Perfect Witness Coming of Age Dance How to Make a Smile Becoming Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts Motherland Winter Notes & Acknowledgements

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