Brown: Poems History some well-known and some less

some well-known and some less familiar

Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists

the tea that has shaped their family's destiny for centuries

Ada knows it's up to her to find the source

Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship to power―and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template

Brown: Poems History some well-known and some lessDivided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History" a song of Kansas high school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students "the Sixties minus Malcolm X, or Watts, barely a march on Washington" to "Money Road," a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's