Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian - Couverture souple

Ricketson, Mary Peavey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 195046203X ISBN 13 : 9781950462032

Editeur : Kelsay Books, 2019

Synopsis

Mary Ricketson’s memories from childhood weave images into the texture of Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian , unlocking the poet’s full conception of how it was, her parents Luke and Marian, living those days in Mississippi, while all about, the ghosts of the past, the tragic focal story Humanity surfaces to reveal the history of segregation, the separate but equal doctrine played out in these poems to purge the souls of women and men. Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian is a triumph of memory and mind, how the color-line moves with force to make us see that Love is the answer.

Shelby Stephenson, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, 2015-2018

Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian, takes the reader on an incredible journey. In the first poem Mary delves right in, after the white gas station owner tells her father, No colored man is a gentleman, and no colored woman is a lady, while the black man pretends not to hear. She shares her parent's struggles. Making a Home in Mississippi tells how they bought one beer and shared it, later shampooing each other's hair. In Watercolors 1953, I see the innocence of a child wanting to drink out of the colored fountain. Mary tells about playing with her black friend, and a cross burning in a front yard. This is a book that will make you feel emotions, as the black and white struggle for life during this time of racial tension.

Glenda Barrett, author of When the Sap Rises and The Beauty of Silence.

Mary Peavey Ricketson’s poems of her family pray for understanding and diversity as they lend a personal slant on times of racial tension in the 1950s and 1960s in Mississippi when segregation kept fear and dread dominant. Poems like “Delphine”, and “Family Dentist”, give honor to African American individuals she admired as a child, making the point that when we all get to know each other, different races can find trust and harmony. Stories of Luke and Marian bring the discussion to the everyday lives of people never quite aware of what was actually taking place in those times.

Ann Woodford, author of When All God’s Children Get Together: A Celebration of the Lives and Music of African American People in Far Western North Carolina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kelsay Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 195046203X
• ISBN 13: 9781950462032
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 62
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