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Of Beauty and Death
A personal essay moving between a meditation on wartime death and sacrifice and a catalogue of the day-to-day indignities of Jim Crow — refused service, averted eyes, closed doors — asking whether beauty and dignity can survive inside the Veil. Followed by 'The Prayers of God,' a dramatic-monologue poem in which a lyncher confronts a God he has, at last, wronged directly.
Wartime death and the meaning of sacrificeThe daily texture of Jim Crow discriminationBeauty as argument, not decoration'The Prayers of God' (verse)