Walking back up Depot Street poems - Pratt, Minnie Bruce (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999)
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Includes bibliographical references
Shades -- Central prison -- Bust of Martha Mitchell to be unveiled -- Swingblade -- Painting her fingernails red -- Button -- Red string -- The blue cup -- A cold not the opposite of life -- Out of season -- Strange flesh -- The white star -- The A & P -- The possum eats out of the graveyard -- On the silver coast -- What the cat knows -- At deep midnight -- The road to Selma -- Second sight -- The gate -- The petrified woman -- The subway entrance -- Bone day -- Snake eyes -- The shrine -- Fighting fire -- The ferry -- The great migration -- Trash -- Eating clay -- The remnant shop -- Cost and use -- The other side
A collection of poetry that is both the story of the segregated rural south and the story of a white woman who is leaving that home for the postindustrial north