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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eHonored in \"Best Books of the Year\" listings from \u003cI\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c/I\u003e, National Public Radio, \u003cI\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c/I\u003e, and The Huffington Post.\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cI\u003eOne With Others\u003c/I\u003e represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own.\"\u0026#151; National Public Radio\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eBooklist\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eToday, Gentle Reader,\u003cBR\u003ethe sermon once again: \"Segregation\u003cBR\u003eAfter Death.\" Showers in the a.m.\u003cBR\u003eThe threat they say is moving from the east.\u003cBR\u003eThe sheriff's club says Not now. Not\u003cBR\u003enokindofhow. Not never. The children's\u003cBR\u003eminds say Never waver. Air\u003cBR\u003efanned by a flock of hands in the old\u003cBR\u003efuneral home where the meetings\u003cBR\u003ewere called [because Mrs. Oliver\u003cBR\u003eowned it free and clear], and\u003cBR\u003ethat selfsame air, sanctified\u003cBR\u003eand doomed, rent with racism, and\u003cBR\u003eit percolates up from the soil itself . . . \u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines explosive incidents grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories\u0026#151;especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vittitow\u0026#151;with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, and activists. This history leaps howling off the page.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eC.D. Wright\u003c/B\u003e has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose. Among her honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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