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"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 collecti...

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Main Author: Wilkinson, Crystal (Author)
Other Authors: Davis, Ronald W., 1967- (Illustrator), Finney, Nikky (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Subjects:
Mothers > Poetry.
Poetry.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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