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This book is about the author whose poetic pages are filled with life experiences of racism. social injustice, motherhood, gender exclusion, finding self and a hope for the future as an artist. The author explores through her words as a what some would call a wave of the black feminist movement. A movement where women of color are constantly marginalized in a society that discriminates not only against race but gender. The book opens up to the struggles one writer faces while finding herself throughout various stages in her life. Uniquely this book includes a collection of poems from more than twenty seven years ago, that is being shown to the world. The author and poet has included copies of the original hand written poems from 1998 when she was just a high school senior. A look into a young female black writers eyes through her own experience and critical observation of the world. Perhaps this book is giving a glimpse of past and presence in one mind of an artist that time is really of the essence and that she was able to foresee her own future struggles as a black woman in America. The book does not hold back on raw emotions and feelings demonstrated throughout her work. The poems break the conventional rules of traditional poetry in this remarkable anthology.

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