Blood Author|Jane McLeod and Sue Tetzlaff poetry and prose

poetry and prose

and at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College

words are tactile

it is a book that knows that everyone and no one is a foreigner on this planet and that the country of the poets has no customs

On a dark Mississippi night in 1960 a young black Civil Rights leader is murdered ripped apart by a shotgun blast and left to die in a ditch beside a lonely country road

Blood Author|Jane McLeod and Sue Tetzlaff poetry and prose"Probably the real story of race in the United States (like all real stories) can only be written by a poet. And Shane McCrae has done it. BLOOD is an epic that spans three centuries. BLOOD is so formally innovative that you don't quite understand how it achieves its effects. BLOOD is so utterly clear it makes you cry. BLOOD is almost impossibly empathetic. Moving from sequences based on slave narratives and Federal Writers Project oral histories to