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was AMAZING. I dogeared at least a third of the poems, either to teach or just for

myself.
The last section, about being pregnant and being a mom had me welling up the whole time.
And just the languageoh this was spot on, I love this book. It is a masterpiece of blues, jazz, history and love all rolled into one, If you like Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Ntozake Shange, Trapeta Mayson or Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, you will love this book.
Wow, what a powerful, fantastic collection of poetry, As soon as you think you've found your favorite poem in the book, you find another.
As soon as I think my favorite song is "Basketball Gypsies", it's "Ancestors" as soon as think my favorite poem is "Southrd Street, Floor", it's "Dear John Letter to America".
And then there are pages I dogeared to come back to so I can try to pull something out of myself anything like what's on them.
All of the pages are ones you can come back to, Philadelphia poetry! "smoke some Alice Coltrane" Jazz scat funk fantastic! Yolanda Wishers poems are populous with women who are not, to borrow from Lucille Clifton, “noplace / anonymous girls.
” Each woman hereaunties, mamas, grannies, friends, especially Phillis, especially Harrietis “a city / of a woman, ” These poems bounce as if on the bus route, shimmy by like the subway, sizzle like spit on the hot comb.
Had me laughing and relating, The flow of Wishers words is enthralling in this beautiful collection that takes on the present, history, and motherhood.
Poetry. African American Studies. .