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"Through the eyes and stories of prominent Black female figures from Zora Neale Hurston to Riley Curry and Michelle Obama, and with an homage to Toni Morrison's Beloved, Breath Better Spent beautifully and trenchantly captures the culture of Black girlhood and its changing relationship to American culture, exploring the highly visible and invisible spaces that Black girls occupy, from school, to home, to others' imaginations, and proceeds to question...
26) Mothman apologia
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"Robert Wood Lynn's collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia's...
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"En doce distintivos poemas narrativos, las reconocidas autoras Alma Flor Ada y F. Isabel Campoy presentan una crónica de la rica diversidad de los latinos en Estados Unidos. Cada capítulo se complementa con un texto informativo sobre la historia, la cultura, los triunfos yo los retos de los latinos y pone de manifiesto las muchas formas en que celebran su identidad" --Page 4 of cover.