Walking Back Up Depot Street

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Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Walking Back Up Depot Street is an epic journey, in the original sense of epic as a story that poets invented to remind people of their own history—where they came from and where they are going. In these dramatically multivocal narrative poems, told through the eyes of a white woman named Beatrice, we enter into a story of the segregated rural South.

We hear the words and rhythms of Bible Belt preachers, African-American blues and hillbilly gospel singers—and of sharecropper country women and urban lesbians. 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.

Walking Back Up Depot Street is the work of one poet reclaiming history from the hands of the demagogues. Softcover, 116pp, Poetry

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