Armor and Flesh (2004 Lotus Press edition) (Q7271)
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2004 edition, published by Lotus Press in Detroit, Michigan
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| English | Armor and Flesh (2004 Lotus Press edition) |
2004 edition, published by Lotus Press in Detroit, Michigan |
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Armor and Flesh | Poems by | Mendi Lewis Obadike | [publisher's device] | LOTUS PRESS | Detroit
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Copyright (c) 2004 by Mendi Lewis Obadike
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For Keith, who wanted me to write, and my parents who taught me how
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[1] Many thanks to the editors and staff of the following journals where these poems first appeared: Cave Canem V, Crossroads, Drylongso, Fence, Fyah, Hooked, Indiana Review, MonkeyBread, Obsidian III, Sou’wester, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art.
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[2] Big love to Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Sarah Micklem, Cave Canem, Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, MonkeyBread, The Femail Massive, Iona Rozeal Brown, and the following writers who helped shape Armor and Flesh with their obsessions, suggestions, and secrets of the craft:
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[3] Duriel Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Candice Jenkins, Evie Shockley, and Christian Campbell. There aren’t enough words to thank the amazing Noami Long Madgett for all her work on this book and with all the books of Lotus Press.
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[4] Finally, I must acknowledge my deepest gratitude for my parents, Shirley A.R. Lewis and Ronald M. Lewis, and my husband Keith. Their sacrifice, wisdom, and love have been my armor. This thanks is also to out families— the Redds, Lewises, Townsends, and Obadikes—and our ancestors.
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0916418936
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"She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix the two." - Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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12.00 https://blackbibliog.rutgers.edu/entity/Q257
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