One with others : [a little book of her days] /
The author returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories--especially those of her mentor, V--as she draws directly upon the voices of witn...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Port Townsend, WA :
Copper Canyon Press,
2010.
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| Summary: | The author returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories--especially those of her mentor, V--as she draws directly upon the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, activists, and a group of black students at the eye of the storm. |
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| Physical Description: | 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, 2010. |
| ISBN: | 1556593244 (hc : alk. paper) 9781556593246 (hc : alk. paper) 9781556593888 1556593880 |