Shaping memories : reflections of African American women writers / / edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 245 p. |
| Notes: | "The essayists featured here are members of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective"--Introd. |
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Table of Contents:
- A distant star called possibility : Wintergreen / Nikki Giovanni
- Wintergreen and alaga syrup : a writer's reflections on memory, writing, and place / Carmen R. Gillespie
- From "Shaping the world of my art" / Paule Marshall
- Outside of dreams / Ethel Morgan Smith
- The case of the reluctant reader : she who reads last-- / Sandra Y. Govan
- Parting the blue miasma / Kendra Hamilton
- New kid on the block / Joanne Veal Gabbin
- Obstacles or opportunities : the wisdom to know the difference / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
- The faith walk of writing : connecting head and heart / Marilyn Sanders Mobley
- On my return from exile / Linda Williamson Nelson
- Of history and healing / Janus Adams
- The conscientious outsider / Camille Dungy
- The mother's board / Opal Moore
- My father's passage / Mari Evans
- A blessed life / Maryemma Graham
- A birth and a death, or Everything important happens on Monday / Daryl Cumber Dance
- Ambrosia / Nikky Finney
- Cotton pickin' authority / Trudier Harris
- The first time I saw Big Daddy grinning / Lovalerie King
- On gardening, or A love supreme / Joyce Pettis
- A very good year / Hermine Pinson
- Bury the thought / Karla FC Holloway
- The death of the mother / Eugenia Collier
- A remembrance / Sonia Sanchez
- The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday / Toi Derricotte
- Afterword: Rites, rituals, and creative ceremonies : a social history of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective / Sandra Y. Govan
- Poetry reading : a coda / Opal Moore.