"... and I traveled enough and moved enough to know that home is not a place. I am thinking perhaps home is not a language either. Language it too easy to lose. Perhaps home is memory."
Written by: Four generations of African American writers
Edited by: Camille T. Dungy
Complied in: 2009
My top six favorites:
"Writing Home" by CamilleT. Dungy (pg. 283)
"the earth is a living thing" by Lucille Clifton (pg. 6)
"31 words "prose poem"" by Evie Schockley (pg. 33)
"The Brown Menace or Poem to the Survival of Cockroaches" by Audre Lorde (pg. 132)
"For Saundra" by Nikki Giovanni (pg.151)
"European Folk Tale Variant" by Marryette Mullen
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