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a little bump in the earth

By Tyree Daye
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By Tyree Daye
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Through invention and remembrance, a little bump in the earth creates a black town on a hill—its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.

Tyree Daye's a little bump in the earth is an act of invention and remembrance. Through sprawling poems, the town of Youngsville, North Carolina, where Daye's family has lived for the last 200 years, is reclaimed as “Ritual House." Here, “every cousin aunt uncle ghost" is welcome. Daye invokes real and imagined people, the ancestral dead, land, sna...

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PoetryAmerican Poetry21st Century American PoetryAfrican American PoetryAmerican poetry->African American authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->21st century