Perfect Black
eBook - PDF

Perfect Black

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Perfect Black

About this book

2022 NAACP Image Award Winner

Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakening, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia. In Perfect Black, the acclaimed writer muses on such topics as motherhood, the politics of her Black body, lost fathers, mental illness, sexual abuse, and religion. It is a captivating conversation about life, love, loss, and pain, interwoven with striking illustrations by her long-time partner, Ronald W. Davis.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Part I
  9. Terrain
  10. Baptism (Flatwoods, Kentucky, 1972)
  11. Cousin
  12. Untitled
  13. Asking about My Mother
  14. The Water Witch on Salvation
  15. The Water Witch on Invasion
  16. The Water Witch on Reading
  17. O Tobacco
  18. The Visit
  19. Dig If You Will the Picture
  20. Slow Dance
  21. The Creek
  22. Part II
  23. My Father Was a City
  24. Beyond the White Canvas
  25. August 9, 1974
  26. Wet Nurse
  27. The Bath
  28. Dropsy
  29. Death March
  30. Dear Johnny P
  31. Mother’s Day
  32. Bones
  33. Ole Fashioned
  34. Black Farmer
  35. Press
  36. Dirge
  37. Black Body
  38. A Meditation on Grief: Things We Carry, Things We Remember
  39. On Being Country
  40. Part III
  41. Bloodroot
  42. Kitchen Ghosts
  43. Snow Falls Like a Scorned Woman’s Tears
  44. Black & Fat & Perfect
  45. Witness
  46. Coming of Age
  47. Dance
  48. Homestead
  49. Heritage
  50. Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts
  51. Motherland
  52. Winter
  53. Notes and Acknowledgments