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Gathering The Waters
Keisha-Gaye Anderson's poems in the collection, "Gathering the Waters" are beautiful. These poems are like a box of delightful belongings, like a container of tangible things that cause us to recollect other pictures, other days. Anderson speaks about all of the people of colors in the Western Hemisphere as they live and work in poems that move relentlessly yet are accessible, understandable. An essential and lovely collection. I won't soon forget "Mask," or "The Purge," or "Survival." Ah, "A Message to My Descendents" is beautiful. These are poems to return to again and again.
Keisha-Gaye Anderson will be a participating writer at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, September 7, 8 &9 in Hobart, New York, The Book Village of the Catskills
Keisha-Gaye Anderson will be a participating writer at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, September 7, 8 &9 in Hobart, New York, The Book Village of the Catskills
Published on April 25, 2018 03:59
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A Few Whiles
I knew a boy once who thought that, if there was one while, i.e. a unit – a while of time, then surely there were two whiles and three and so on to several. So, often he would say that he’d be back in
I knew a boy once who thought that, if there was one while, i.e. a unit – a while of time, then surely there were two whiles and three and so on to several. So, often he would say that he’d be back in a few whiles – that he’d only be gone a few whiles. He’d explain that he’d only been gone there - been lollygagging there -- for a few whiles. He meant a half an hour or an hour. It’s been such a long, long while and I am still waiting, I think.
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