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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Magic City Gospel

Magic City Gospel

Jones, Ashley M.

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1938235266
ISBN13: 9781938235269
Publisher: Hub City Pr
Published: Jan 1 2017
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Magic City Gospel is a love song to Birmingham, the Magic City of the South. In traditional forms and free verse poems, 2015 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award-winner Ashley M. Jones takes readers on a historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey through her life and the life of her home state. From De Soto's discovery of Alabama to George Wallace's infamous stance in the schoolhouse door, to the murders of black men like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner in modern America, Magic City Gospel weaves personal history with the troubled, triumphant, and complicated history of Birmingham, and of Alabama at large. In this assured debut, you'll find why gold is laced in Alabama's teeth. In the ghosts and the grits, this collection speaks to Jones's generation and beyond: Let me wash you in Alabama heat / and tell you who you are. Magic City Gospel is a book of personal, political, and cultural history, whose red dirt stained pages offer a fresh and unvarnished gaze on Birmingham, Alabama, and America.

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