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One With Others: [a Little Book Of Her Days] (2010)

by C.D. Wright(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1556593244 (ISBN13: 9781556593246)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Copper Canyon Press

review 1: Predates the Help (#1 read in local books stores in 2011) & is so much better (truer, more authentic, whatever you want to call it)than that bestseller. No stereotyped white frat boys or stereotyped debutantes as easy villains. Nor stereotyped philandering black husbands for that matter. But rather, one white woman, as well as many black civil rights activists, with plenty of warts & flaws and some very admirable virtues & appealing idiosyncrasies. This book just brought so much to mind, past and present. History & the very personal life both.
review 2: I am a slow reader, especially with poetry, but I tore through this in one long sitting. The poetry at first seems distant from the intensity of Wright's early and middle books. Of course, the project reflect... mores a larger aim, to capture the life of a personal hero of historical and social importance. The first level of brilliance in this book arrives with the blend of an objective documentary approach interspersed with collages of repeating found lines. The second level of brilliance arrives toward the end, when the momentum builds into a pure lyric grounded by all the literal groundwork that sets up the book. Wright honors her mentor through a poem that presents Wright's vision of her without distorting the woman by recasting her in a straight narrative or a contrived thematic lyric. You get a straight shot of poetry without pretenses written in a unique and masterful style. less

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