High Water Everywhere

Poetry collection by Gary Copeland Lilley. Lilley's collection addresses flashpoints in African American history including the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and Hurricane Katrina. Second edition with new poems.

EXCERPT:

Colonel Waddell on the Morning of November 10, 1898

from High Water Everywhere

They vote Republican black. They walk

Our streets with their heads up, with more freedom

Than a white man, and now we have been made

To conduct our city's business under

The rule of carpet-baggers and ...