Zion (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

by TJ Jarrett

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

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Zion, the latest collection of poems by TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the resonating effects of the civil rights movement on one family. Jarrett lovingly explores the minutiae of mortality and race across three generations of "Dark Girls" who have come together one summer to grieve and to remember as one of them passes to the farther shore-a place beyond retribution, where there is only forgiveness. The Mississippi of Jarrett's collection is alive with fireflies and locusts and show more murders of crows; yet for some, it is a wasteland of unanswered prayers, burning evenings, and the shades of show less

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
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811.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry2000-
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PS3610Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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