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how to get over

By t'ai freedom ford
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By t'ai freedom ford
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An astonishing debut, how to get over is part instruction manual, part prayer, part testimony. It attempts to solve the reader’s problems (by telling them how to get over), while simultaneously creating them—troubling the waters with witness and blues. ford’s poems witness via a series of “past life portraits” that navigate personal space as well as the imagined persona. These portraits conjure the blues via the imagined lives of the inanimate (a whip, a machete), the historic (a Negro buri...

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