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Review by Stephen Page
Arriving late in the evening at the ranch house my collie greets me and I give him some raw meat I had brought with me. I eat a sandwich and drink a glass of milk and go to bed with Honorée Jeffers’ The Gospel of Barbeque (a gift from Ed Ochester), a collection of poems mostly from southern black women points of view. Each poem is from a different narrator, yet each is written in the first person. Unique and imbued with ethos, the collection takes the reader into the souls of the repressed to look out upon the world with hope and tenacity. Jeffers’ voice and style are exemplary. I read it several times and fall asleep around four in the morning. I wake up early to the sound of rain tapping on the corrugated roof of my office (we have been in a…
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