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Co-winner of the 1998 Mellen Poetry Press Prize Contest This epic poem relates slavery back to historic an current African practices which were aggravated and exploited by Europeans. Contains material on the sexual exploitation of blacks by whites during slavery and on the artificial color categories that emerged from this and that were used to buttress segregation and racism. Strong use of repetition to support anger and irony. Other Poetry-Poems Books 2002 – Blessed Be the Anawim Poems 1996 – Capturing the Light 1996 –
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