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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: book of Alice
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Forde, Diamond
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 82 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Record of deaths: Diamond Forde -- Family tree -- Genesis -- Exodus -- Daughters -- Lamentations -- Revelations.
  target audience: adult
  note: Diamond Forde.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible. English
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / Women Authors
  classification: PS3606.O747327 B66 2026
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781668078402
  identifier: 1668078406
  identifier: 9781668078426
  identifier: 2025028102
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 251113
    record change date: 20260504162405.0
    record identifier: in00005777586