I Don't Want to Be Rich, Just Able: Poems

Zippert, Carol Prejean

ISBN 10: 1881320804 / ISBN 13: 9781881320807

Published by River City Pub, Montgomery, Al, 1997

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173 Pgs. Inscribed, Signed By Author; Text Clean; Poetry, Afro-American Women.

Seller Inventory # 035116

Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Don't Want to Be Rich, Just Able: Poems
• Publisher: River City Pub, Montgomery, Al
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881320804
• ISBN 13: 9781881320807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

In this collection of poems, an African-American writer offers strong, evocative images of women, family, the struggle for justice, and the joys of motherhood. Some of the poems are written in a musical patois that reflects the author's early life in the Louisiana bayou country. Others draw on the civil rights experiences of rural Alabama.

About the Author

Carol Prejean Zippert, a Louisiana native, is a poet, educator, community activist, and newspaper publisher in the Black Belt region of west Alabama, where she has lived with her family since 1971. Her earlier collection of poetry, I Don't Want To Be Rich, Just Able, is also published by NewSouth Books. Dr. Zippert has a special interest in rural youth and serves as an adjunct research professor and resource specialist for Tuskegee University's Community-Based Youth Partnerships. She has also helped orchestrate institutions such as the Greene County Employees Federal Credit Union, 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement, the Society of Folk Arts & Culture, and the Black Belt Community Foundation. With her husband, John, she owns and co-publishes the Greene County Democrat, the county newspaper of record in Eutaw, Alabama. The Zipperts have two daughters, one son, and a growing number of grandchildren.