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Dark Testament: and Other Poems
Dark Testament: and Other Poems | Pauli Murray
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With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli Murrays sole book of poems finally returns to print. There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading historians as a woman who contributed far more to the civil rights movement than anyone knew, being arrested in 1940fifteen years before Rosa Parksfor refusing to give up her seat on a Virginia bus. Celebrated by twenty-first-century readers as a civil rights activist on the level of King, Parks, and John Lewis, she is also being rediscovered as a gifted writer of memoir, sermons, and poems. Originally published in 1970 and long unavailable, Dark Testament and Other Poems attests to her fierce lyrical powers. At turns song, prayer, and lamentation, Murrays poems speak to the brutal history of slavery and Jim Crow and the dream of racial justice and equality.
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This was hard to put down! Loved it, I added loads of notes 😂 #lmpbc @phantomx @WanderingBookaneer @SamAnne

Texreader What a little sweetheart you have there. ❤️🐈‍⬛ 3y
SamAnne Looking forward to it. And I received the Lorca book in the mail this weekend! 3y
WanderingBookaneer Yay! I loved it as well. 3y
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TheBookKeepers Yay! I have this one packaged and will mail it out today @SamAnne 3y
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Completely forgot to post this when I finished the contemplation. Quite an amazing collection of poems that are thought provoking on the truth of history, race, gender, sexuality, and speaking out about other issues. #GroupU #lmpbc #poetry #round12 @WanderingBookaneer @SamAnne @TheBookKeepers

TheBookKeepers I‘m excited for this one! 3y
SamAnne Looking forward to it! 3y
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Started my lmpbc book for Group U. Pauli Murray's poems remind me of certain poems by Adrianne Rich, Rita Dove, and Natasha Trethewey. Murray is quite strategic when comes to showing her anger in her poetry, like it's slow and hits you (figuratively) unexpectedly #lmpbc #GroupU #poetry #round12 @WanderingBookaneer @TheBookKeepers @SamAnne

TheBookKeepers ❤️ 3y
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“In coffin and outhouse all men are equal,
And the same red earth is fed
By the white bones of Tom Jefferson
And the white bones of Nat Turner.”

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Soubhiville Great stack! 3y
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Disclaimer: I‘m not sure if this is the coluythis poem is in or not. #conflict #quotsyict18 @TK-421