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x, 82 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
In The Book of Alice, poet Diamond Forde honors her grandmother by recounting her life through the language and structure of the King James Bible, the only poetry her grandmother knew. Born in the Jim Crow South, Alice migrated to New York City during the Great Migration, where she married, divorced and raised eight children while navigating racism and personal hardship. Blending found documents, such as recipes, a family tree and census records, with imagined psalms and scriptures, Forde draws parallels between biblical narratives and marginalized Black experiences, creating both an elegy and a reimagined sacred text.
Record of deaths: Diamond Forde -- Family tree -- Genesis -- Exodus -- Daughters -- Lamentations -- Revelations.