Perfect black

Wilkinson, Crystal (author.). Davis, Ronald W., 1967- (illustrator.). Finney, Nikky, (writer of foreword.).

Summary: "From the foreword: "In Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson walks us back down the road she first walked as a girl, wanders us through the trees that lined the road where she grew up, where her sensibilities as a woman and a writer were first laid bare. In one of the first poems that opens the collection she is a woman looking back on her life, on the soil and mountains that first stamped the particular sound of her voice and she is deeply inquisitive about how it all fell into place: "The map of me can't be all hills & mountains even though I've been country all my life. The twang in my voice has moved downhill to the flat land a time or two." Perfect Black is a book of poems and legends about ancestry, culture, and the terrain of a Black girl becoming. It is a narrow and spacious terrain that enters the bloodstream of this black writing girl's body early. It is a country that she never truly exits even though different zip codes continue to fly through her wild, wondrous, winding life. We read and we hold on too.""--

Record details

ISBN: 9780813151168
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Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Dirge -- Black Body -- A Meditation on Grief: Things We Carry, Things We Remember -- On Being Country -- Part 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 and Acknowledgments
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 04, 2021).