Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, this provocative and heartrending collection of poems evokes the experience of what it means to be among the missing in contemporary America. This thought-provoking collection of persona poems looks at absence from the standpoint of the witnesses surrounding the void and offers an intimate depiction of those impossible moments of aftermath lived by those who remain accounted for and present. While enabling us to question our own sense of identity, this unique collection of poems reveals the blurred edges of separation between them and us and the impact that the missing have upon our present and future.
Finalist, NAACP Image Awards
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Their name for you tastes bitter and uncooked.
Do not listen when they say you were adopted. Hear your given, gnaw upon this gristle.You are someone’s missing boy. Your father named youJeremiah.—excerpt from “How the Bryant Boy Will Know”© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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