Perfect Black

Crystal Wilkinson,Ronald W. Davis

• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Jahr: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780813151212
• Thema: Littérature
• Thema: Poésie américaine

2022 NAACP Image Award Winner

Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakening, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia. In Perfect Black, the acclaimed writer muses on such topics as motherhood, the politics of her Black body, lost fathers, mental illness, sexual abuse, and religion. It is a captivating conversation about life, love, loss, and pain, interwoven with striking illustrations by her long-time partner, Ronald W. Davis.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Foreword
• Part I
• Terrain
• Baptism (Flatwoods, Kentucky, 1972)
• Cousin
• Untitled
• Asking about My Mother
• The Water Witch on Salvation
• The Water Witch on Invasion
• The Water Witch on Reading
• O Tobacco
• The Visit
• Dig If You Will the Picture
• Slow Dance
• The Creek
• Part II
• My Father Was a City
• Beyond the White Canvas
• August 9, 1974
• Wet Nurse
• The Bath
• Dropsy
• Death March
• Dear Johnny P
• Mother’s Day
• Bones
• Ole Fashioned
• Black Farmer
• Press
• Dirge
• Black Body
• A Meditation on Grief: Things We Carry, Things We Remember
• On Being Country
• Part III
• Bloodroot
• Kitchen Ghosts
• Snow Falls Like a Scorned Woman’s Tears
• Black & Fat & Perfect
• Witness
• Coming of Age
• Dance
• Homestead
• Heritage
• Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts
• Motherland
• Winter
• Notes and Acknowledgments