Description

an electrifying, idiosyncratic addition to the ever-growing library of Civil Rights Movement books

C.D. Wright is using the tools and techniques of poetry to write a "people's history" of an ugly racist event in her beloved Arkansas

The hero of this book is a woman named "V," who became a life-long mentor to C.D. Wright

C.D. Wright examines racist events in her native Arkansas and creates a layered, nuanced, and riveting tribute to a cantakerous and heroic white woman with the courage to become "one with others," and then be driven to the state line and told to leave by troopers