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Review 1:30 A.m. After A Reading At A Black College At A Cocktail Party Honoring A Noted Old Southern Writer (1) At Wintergreen: A Retreat For African-american Women Writers Black Boys Play The Classics The Blessing The Body Awakening Bookstore Brother Clitoris Coming Dead Baby Speaks Death At Still Point Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Above Elmina Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Beneath Elmina Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Market Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Power Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Slavery Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Journey Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; The Tour Exits From Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana; Tourists' Lunch Family Secrets For Black Women Who Are Afraid For Sharan Strange, After A Reading For Sister Sue Ellen And Her Special Messenger From A Letter: About Snow Grace Paley Reading In The Mountains Inventory Invisible Dreams Not Forgotten On Katchimac Bay: Homer, Alaska On The Miracle Of The Crying Statue: Before You Begin The Origins Of The Artist: Natalie Cole Passing (1) Shoe Repair Business Tender The Touch Two Poems: Bird Two Poems: Peripheral When My Father Was Beating Me Workshop On Racism (2) -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Raw, honest and provocative. It hits those vulnerable spots in us where we question our openness to such issues as racial harmony and sexual freedom.... This is an emotionally compelling collection, one that lives for the reader in its stark images. -- Kliatt Toi Derricotte seems to write from a place deep in her body.... I am grateful for her honesty, her exactness, her sense of justice and openness to love.....Derricotte's range of diction, form, and subject is grand. -- Women's Review of Books <br/