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Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, TRACY K. SMIVerdelle, A. J.
Summary: "The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precarious journey toward creativity that is the writer's life, and tells the compelling story of her relationship with Toni Morrison, painting an illuminating portrait of this towering yet enigmatic cultural icon. With the publication of her debut novel The Good Negress in 1995, A. J. Verdelle became an overnight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERDELLE, A.J. VERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VERDELLE VERWilkinson, Crystal
Summary: "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen. There were an abundance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILAngelou, Maya
Summary: In the third volume of her autobiography, the author recounts her passage into adulthood and the white world, and her initial experiences of marriage, motherhood, and show business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009