Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems

Nursery Rhymes in Black is a poetic recollection of race, roots, culture, and identity. Paying homage to the memory and work of elders and ancestors, Latorial Faison remembers her own matriarch, mother, grandmother—the rich memories of having grown up in rural, historic Southampton County, Virginia. These poignant poems mark significant moments and tell the lives of the people along the author’s journey through the post-segregation Jim Crow South.

The collection highlights family, overcomin...