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050	0	0	_aPS3566.R35 _bW35 1999
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100	1		_aPratt, Minnie Bruce
245	1	0	_aWalking back up Depot Street _b: poems _c/ Minnie Bruce Pratt.
260			_aPittsburgh _b: University of Pittsburgh Press _c, c1999.
300			_a116 p. _b: ill. _c; 22 cm.
440		0	_aPitt poetry series
520			_aIn Pratt's fourth collection of poetry, Walking Back Up Depot Street, we travel to a land we have lived in, but never seen. We are led by powerful images into what is both a story of the segregated rural South and the story of a woman named Beatrice who is leaving that home for the post-industrial North. As Beatrice searches for the truth behind the public story -- the public history -- of the land of her childhood, she hears and sees the unknown past come alive. She struggles to free herself from the lies she has been taught while growing up -- and finds others who are also on this journey. In these dramatically multivocal narrative poems, we hear the words and rhythms of Bible Belt preachers, African-American blues and hillbilly gospel singers, and of sharecropper country women and urban lesbians. We hear the testimony of freed slaves and white abolitionists speaking against Klan violence, fragments of speeches by union organizers and mill workers, and snatches of song from those who marched on the road to Selma.
650		0	_aPoetry, American
650		0	_aFeminism
650		0	_aLesbians
650		4	_aWomen _x-Poetry
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