It is perfect packaging, and what is within does not disappoint. Of Poetry and Protest is coffee-table size, with a stars and stripes in warm, deep gray tones serving as background for the words on the cover. Both are eloquent proof of the imperative to wrestle with truth so that it can be transformed, to any degree. Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin was edited and compiled by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr, and Monticello In Mind: Contemporary Poems on Jefferson, was edited by Lisa Russ Spaar. The late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan got it just right when she said at a Watergate hearing that “When they wrote the Constitution, I was left out.” All writers face this with varying degrees of consent, creativity, and success, often in direct or indirect collaborations with historians and archaeologists. America was born with an immoral race problem and will die with it.
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