Even the hollow my body made is gone : poems

Harrington, Janice N., (author.). Spires, Elizabeth, (author of forward.).

Summary:

"Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what originally drew me to Harrington's manuscript and what continues to pull me back. We learn the story of Lillian and Webster and their children and grandchildren, a black family living a hardscrabble life in the rural South more than sixty years ago. Set on the cusp of the Civil Rights era, the poems chronicle a way of life that has long since vanished."--Elizabeth Spires, from the foreword

Record details

ISBN: 1929918895
ISBN: 9781929918898
Physical Description: 85 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The thief's tabernacle -- What there was -- Killed in childbirth -- If she had lived -- Superstitions that the mulatto passed on to her daughter -- Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The banjo lesson," 1893 -- Before a screen door -- Burning the rain forest -- Heat -- Revival -- Drying apples -- Corn crib -- Turning -- They all sang -- Waiting -- Ash -- Falling -- The warning comes down -- The offer -- O believer -- Possum -- The line is slack -- Traveler -- A colored woman cannot sing -- Benham's disk -- Shaking the grass.

Awards Note:

Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2008