Wade in the Water: Poems Bookseller Recommended Illuminating text paired with irresistible

Illuminating text paired with irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth

March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights

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Wade in the Water: Poems Bookseller Recommended Illuminating text paired with irresistibleIn Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith's signature voice inquisitive, lyrical, and wry turns over what it means to be a citizen, a