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050	0	4	_aPS3573 _b.P474 2021
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aWilkinson, Crystal, _e1
245	1	0	_aPerfect black /Crystal Wilkinson ; illustrated by Ronald W. Davis ; foreword by Nikky Finney.
300			_a1 online resource
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"From the foreword: "In Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson walks us back down the road she first walked as a girl, wanders us through the trees that lined the road where she grew up, where her sensibilities as a woman and a writer were first laid bare. In one of the first poems that opens the collection she is a woman looking back on her life, on the soil and mountains that first stamped the particular sound of her voice and she is deeply inquisitive about how it all fell into place: "The map of me can't be all hills & mountains even though I've been country all my life. The twang in my voice has moved downhill to the flat land a time or two." Perfect Black is a book of poems and legends about ancestry, culture, and the terrain of a Black girl becoming. It is a narrow and spacious terrain that enters the bloodstream of this black writing girl's body early. It is a country that she never truly exits even though different zip codes continue to fly through her wild, wondrous, winding life. We read and we hold on too.""-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aFront Cover -- _tTitle Page -- _tCopyright Page -- _tDedication -- _tEpigraph -- _tContents -- _tForeword -- _tPart I -- _tTerrain -- _tBaptism (Flatwoods, Kentucky, 1972) -- _tCousin -- _tUntitled -- _tAsking about My Mother -- _tThe Water Witch on Salvation -- _tThe Water Witch on Invasion -- _tThe Water Witch on Reading -- _tO Tobacco -- _tThe Visit -- _tDig If You Will the Picture -- _tSlow Dance -- _tThe Creek -- _tPart II -- _tMy Father Was a City -- _tBeyond the White Canvas -- _tAugust 9, 1974 -- _tWet Nurse -- _tThe Bath -- _tDropsy -- _tDeath March -- _tDear Johnny P -- _tMother's Day -- _tBones -- _tOle Fashioned -- _tBlack Farmer -- _tPress
505	0	0	_aDirge -- _tBlack Body -- _tA Meditation on Grief: Things We Carry, Things We Remember -- _tOn Being Country -- _tPart III -- _tBloodroot -- _tKitchen Ghosts -- _tSnow Falls Like a Scorned Woman's Tears -- _tBlack and Fat and Perfect -- _tWitness -- _tComing of Age -- _tDance -- _tHomestead -- _tHeritage -- _tPraise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts -- _tMotherland -- _tWinter -- _tNotes and Acknowledgments
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650		0	_aMothers _vPoetry.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aDavis, Ronald W., _d1967- _eillustrator.
700	1		_aFinney, Nikky, _ewriter of foreword.
856	4	0	_zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password. _uhttpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2711060&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell