they arrested the kids who marched to the white school who stood and sang 'like a tree planted by the water.' They took them to the jailhouse in school buses. They took them to the drained pool in sealed 18-wheelers. The sheriff told them they were to be taken to the woods and there shot. Then the sheriff told them they were to be taken to the pool and there drowned. Granddaughter of V.'s babysitter, who was put in the pool she had never seen before then. He was one mean man, that sheriff."I wanted to write a book of poetry that gave no quarter, as far as it still being a serious work of art but that was also a page-turner. It's a hybrid form. So it uses prose. It uses documentary materials. It uses the local newspaper.
from PBS: Newshour: Poet C.D. Wright Weaves History, Reporting, Storytelling in Verse
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By Heather HartleyThis is a place where all the keepsakes are sleeping.
from PBS: Newshour: Weekly Poem: 'This is a fugue for the lost art of aching'
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