Walking Gentry home
a memoir of my foremothers in verse
Book - 2022
"A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Alora in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman. The lives of these women come together to form a narrative that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in the American South. Each poem is a story-in-verse and together they form an arresting saga. Both heart-wrenching and inspiring, this unique family memoir finds joy and pride where others might only see despair. Informed by archival research, the will and testament of a slaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those most often muted: Black girls and women in America."--
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Hogarth,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 520 | |a "A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Alora in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman. The lives of these women come together to form a narrative that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in the American South. Each poem is a story-in-verse and together they form an arresting saga. Both heart-wrenching and inspiring, this unique family memoir finds joy and pride where others might only see despair. Informed by archival research, the will and testament of a slaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those most often muted: Black girls and women in America."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |a Machine generated contents note: |t PART ONE -- |t Mothers, TN, Many Many Generations -- |t Show Me the Company You Keep I'll Tell You Who You Are, Part I -- |t A Lot See But a Few Know. Halls, TN. Always -- |t Mitochondrial Eve, Africa, 150,000 Years Ago -- |t When They Took Us, Benin and Togo, Circa 1560 -- |t Black Tax, America, 1650-Present -- |t This Country 1776 -- |t Widows, Haywood County, 1790 -- |t Amy 1796 -- |t Collie, b. 1837 -- |t Becoming a Free Woman Haywood County Circa 1840 -- |t Dance On -- |t 1864 -- |t PART TWO -- |t Ninnts, b. 1878 -- |t Railway Stop, 1882 -- |t Nannie Pearl, b. 1898 -- |t No Soap 1918 -- |t Ortho B, 1921 -- |t Sample Cakes, 1930 -- |t Brinkley; Abridged. 1940 -- |t PART THREE -- |t Dinner 1930 -- |t Gentry Dancing 1932 -- |t This Frightening Change -- |t Momma Flute 1920-2017 -- |t Midnight Women, an Alternate Reality, the Past to the Present Day -- |t Gentry Pregnant, 1939 -- |t Walk Gentry Home, Haywood County, TN, Circa 1940 -- |t Shotgun Weddings 1941 -- |t Colorstruck -- |t Floydio B -- |t Stockings, Ripley, TN, 1944 -- |t The Air Base -- |t PART FOUR -- |t Kilt a Love Song -- |t Advice Poem -- |t Reckless Girls -- |t Halls Consolidated -- |t The Movies 1950 -- |t So a Man Thinketh So Is He -- |t Lord Give Gentry Some New Monkeys Cause These Can't Dance -- |t Stillborn, Haywood County, 1957 -- |t The Lacy Girls -- |t Make a Fool out of You 1960 -- |t Cotton Picking 1960 -- |t The Birth of a Young Son, Halls, TN, Circa 1960 -- |t The Colored Prom, 1960 -- |t Black Sheep -- |t Church -- |t The Cha perone -- |t Yvonne Pregnant, 1969 -- |t The Only Pool in Ripley -- |t Keep Living -- |t PART FIVE -- |t Good Girls -- |t The Day It Happened -- |t Bunny Rabbit, 1976 -- |t The Day Mccord Died, Just 25, Ripley, TN, Circa 1976 -- |t St. Louis, 1977 -- |t 1977, Halls, TN -- |t The Blood the Blood the Bride -- |t Green Piano 1980 -- |t Monette -- |t Independence, 1980 -- |t Patches of Green, Ripley, TN, 1984 -- |t As Man and Wife, 1984 -- |t Drive, 1985 -- |t District 10, Haywood County, Always -- |t Life of It -- |t The Choir -- |t The Most Judgmental Women Are Those Who Hate Themselves -- |t The White Dress -- |t One-Sided Fights Ain't Nothin' but Abuse -- |t Young Brides -- |t The Daughter Will Learn, Halls, TN, Summer 1969 -- 1981 -- |t Monette, Driving -- |t Y'all Need to Stop Underestimating the Evil In Somebody Just Because They Say They're a Woman of God -- |t Miss Halls -- |t Perm -- |t The Soprano -- |t Labor Day -- |t Geology -- |t You Ain't Gotta Die and Go to Heaven or Hell to Get What You Deserve, Part I -- |t Growing -- |t Show Me the Company You Keep I'll Tell You Who You Are, Part II -- |t Smoke -- |t Bobos -- |t Colonizers, 1990, Knox County, TN -- |t PART SIX -- |t A Letter from the Womb, Teaneck, NJ, 2002 -- |t Summer -- |t Halls, Depleted -- |t Darkskin/Lightskin 2008, Davidson County, TN -- |t Sister, Sister -- |t Black Tax Continued -- |t Dear Black Girl -- |t Wage Slavery -- |t When I Stop Calling Mom, Mommy -- |t Black Tax Completed -- |t Home -- |t When You Are Old Enough to Make Gumbo -- |t To My Mother, Who I Caught Crying in the Shower -- |t White, TN, Present -- |t Girlhood Delights -- |t The Blacktop -- |t Things That Are Annoying -- |t "For a Black Girl," TN, 1970 -- Present -- |t Dying Town, Halls, TN -- |t American Blessings, America, Present Day -- |t The Day My Grandmother Died, Halls, TN, February 17th, 2017 -- |t Hair, Our Heads, Circa 2017 -- |t You Ain't Gotta Die and Go to Heaven or Hell to Get What You Deserve, Part II -- |t A Question of Privilege, AP Human Geography, District 5, Nashville, TN, 2018 -- |t Rant, 2019, Nashville, TN -- |t To Have a Name -- |t The Untouchable -- |t Bad Dreams, After the Death of George Floyd, 2020 -- |t Climbing Out Windows -- |t Athena & Ida -- |t Cannibalism, Present Day, Tennessee -- |t Convocation -- |t The Chosen People, TN, Always -- |t Black Mothers, TN -- |t When We Realized We Were Black -- |t A Thousand Generations -- |t I'm Still Walking. |
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