Showing Face
Dew Taylor, Nancy
In more than fifty poems, Nancy Dew Taylor's Showing Face can be compared to a powerful film about the Jim Crow era in South Carolina. This seamless series of episodes merges flawlessly researched state history with aching personal confession. Part memoir, part local history, part heartfelt apology, Showing Face tells a vital story that our nation would rather forget. As the poet imagines the separate-but-unequal worlds of Mabelle Hanna McCray...