When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
AberjhaniA world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
AberjhaniIt becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
AberjhaniSomeone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
AberjhaniThe issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.
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