Braided memory
By: Nagueyalti Warren
Contributors: Snake Nation Press (Firm)
Publisher: Snake Nation Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Valdosta, Georgia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780982543061
Subjects: African American girls; African American grandmothers; African Americans; Social conditions
Description: "This is a book of (mostly) love poems disguised as straight reporting of a girl's memories of growing up in the South. The girl is being raised by her Black grandmother in the 40s and 50s; there are instances of White prejudice and brutality, but there is also the pure joy [in some of the poems]."--Page [4]
Table of contents: title: 217 South Benedict --; title: Company coming --; title: Green fingers --; title: Short way home --; title: One summer day --; title: I'll say! --; title: Southern etiquette --; title: Bible school --; title: Her first husband, George --; title: Gambler Valley --; title: After the singing, April 1948 --; title: Dream catcher --; title: False teeth --; title: The old ship --; title: When it rains --; title: Going visiting --; title: Apology --; title: Eavesdropping --; title: Tea cakes --; title: Sometimes she sings the blues --; title: Apple sauce cake --; title: In the country walking --; title: Look away --; title: Ring around roses --; title: Mourning --; title: Family photographs:; title: Black-billed magpie --; title: Patty --; title: Remains --; title: The pork eaters --; title: Blood burning moon --; title: Remembering --; title: 214 South Fisk Avenue --; title: Around the mountain --; title: May 17, nineteen fifity-four --; title: Uncle Pappy --; title: Pappy's parting present --; title: What's in a name? --; title: Miss Dot --; title: All that I know --; title: Fish on Friday --; title: History lessons:; title: Braided memories --; title: The lesson --; title: Savannah --; title: Sadie circa 1744 --; title: The Tramells --; title: The oil lamp --; title: Church --; title: History lesson for the children of Negroes --; title: Trading woods for palm trees:; title: Vacation --; title: Class --; title: Fourth of July --; title: Going to the show --; title: Sestina --; title: Color struck --; title: Summer school --; title: Yours truly, --; title: Memories are made of this --; title: What these mountains teach me --; title: Her parting words