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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
By Jesmyn Ward
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By Jesmyn Ward
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A collection of poems and essays that dissect the ongoing racial discourse in America, all gathered by Jesmyn Ward. This is a powerhouse anthology with perspectives and voices that are essential to the conversation.
The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify” (USA TODAY).
In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contempora...
In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contempora...
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Jesmyn Ward — two-time winner of the National Book Award and 2017 MacArthur Fellow (the “Genius Grant”) — is one of the most indelible American voices working today. Drawing on a wide range of global influences running from Greek mythology and The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Eudora Welty, and Nobel […]
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