![]() We hear the testimony of freed slaves and white abolitionists speaking against Klan violence, fragments of speeches by union organizers and mill workers, and snatches of songs from those who marched on the road to Selma. In these dramatically multivocal narrative poems, we hear the words and rhythms of Bible Belt preachers, African-American blues and hillbilly gospel singers, and sharecropper country women and urban lesbians. She struggles to free herself from the lies she was taught while growing up-and she finds the other people who are also on this journey. ![]() Beatrice searches for the truth behind the public story-the official history-of the land of her childhood. ![]() ![]() In Pratt's fourth volume of poems, Walking Back Up Depot Street, we are led by powerful images into what is both a story of the segregated rural South and the story of a white woman named Beatrice who is leaving that home for the postindustrial North. Selected as ForeWord Magazine’s 1999 Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year ![]()
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