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Part one. That lovin' feeling: poems: Wedding night / A. Van Jordan ; A black wedding song / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Autumn poems / Nikki Giovanni -- Haiku / Kwame Alexander ; Kupenda / Kwame Alexander ; Untitled / E. Ethelbert Miller ; After midnight / Jalal -- Nonfiction: Lamu lover / Doreen Baingana ; After she left / Will Bester ; Loving Johnny Deadline / Lisa Page ; One hundred days of bliss / Sonsyrea Tate Montgomery ; A shared history / W. Ralph Eubanks ; My own happy ending / Marita Golden -- Fiction: Chinaberry / Tina McElroy Ansa ; The history of the world / Veronica Chambers ; Coming clean / Nicole Bailey-Williams ; An act of faith / David Anthony Durham ; Barking in tongues / Kenneth Carroll ; Wilhelmina / Jonetta Rose Barras ; The story of Ruth / Victoria Christopher Murray ; A river to the moon / Anthony Grooms. |
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Part two. Ties that bind: poetry: Why I will praise an old black man / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers ; Acts of love / Kwame Alexander -- Nonfiction: When there's trouble at home / Lonnae O'Neal Parker ; At its best / Tracy Price-Thompson ; Becoming a grandmother becomes me--finally / Robin Alva Marcus ; Learning the name dad / Reginald Dwayne Betts ; My African sister / Faith Adiele ; Isaiah 9:6 / Brian Gilmore ; Grandpa Dutstun / Simone Bostic ; Silence ... the language of trees / Abdul Ali ; Two cents and a question / L.A. Banks ; Love is a verb / Kim McLarin ; Missing you / Pearl Cleage ; From Finding Martha's Vineyard / Jill Nelson ; Love lessons / Patricia Elam ; The heart does go on / Debbie M. Rigaud -- Fiction: Geraldine's song / Felicia Pride ; Be longing / Stacia L. Brown ; Why we jump / William Henry Lewis. |
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In It's All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in "My Own Happy Ending"; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, in a piece he calls "Learning the Name Dad," writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that transformed his life for the better; New York Times bestselling author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching "Missing You"; award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures readers with his "An Act of Faith"; New York Times bestselling author L.A. Banks is both funny and wise in her beautiful essay on discovering love as a child, "Two Cents and a Question." And the poetry of love is here, too'from Gwendolyn Brooks's classic "Black Wedding Song" to works by Nikki Giovanni, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Kwame Alexander. It's All Love is a dazzling, delightfully diverse exploration of the wonderful gift of love. |
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American literature -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Literary collections.
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Love.
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African American families.
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African Americans -- Attitudes.
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African American families. |
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African Americans. |
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African Americans -- Attitudes. |
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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Love. |
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Electronic books. |
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Literary collections.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9780767931588 : $50.85 |
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0767931580 : $50.85 |
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