Iain Haley Pollock s poems cover the ground from a woman late to catfish supper to an ancient queen who howls, Sea, you is ugly, from the creaking of slave ships launched from Lancaster to gunfire on a contemporary Philadelphia street. Such lyric moments find grounding in stories woven through this book in one story line, a boy with a black mother and white father wishes he could shed his white skin or carve into what lies beneath: I flung my almost white self / into my mother s embrace that brown / embrace I hoped would swallow me whole / and spit back a boy four shades darker. Another thread follows a marriage and a woman intertwined with hunger and the blues, a woman who.
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