To the realization of perfect helplessness /

From the National-Book-Award-winning poet who changed the way we see the Black female figure, a continuation of that journey in a genre-bending coming together of poem and photography, toward a new definition of human migration. Twenty-five years ago, after her grandmother's death, Robin Coste...

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Main Author: Lewis, Robin Coste (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
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