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" —from the foreword by John LegendFrom celebrated Black writers

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we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership

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Lullaby for the Grieving Pregnancy " —from the foreword byWith previous work hailed by the New York Times as unflinching and piercing, Ashley M. Joness Lullaby for the Grieving is her most personal collection to date. In her fourth poetry collection, Jones studies the multifaceted nature of grief: the personal grief of losing her father, and the political grief tied to Black Southern identity. How does one find a path through the deep sorrow of losing a parent? What wonders of Blackness have to be suppressed