This is what truly great writers - the great journalists, novelists, poets, playwrights - always do: They know their communities from the inside out, as full members, and they tell the truth about what they know.
This collection of poems is a memoir about Alabama that transcends but does not neglect the public ugliness, the tired old men who've made up their minds and set against everything young and swift.
It is a family story filled with love, tenderness and forgiveness, that rises abov.
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