Author: Phillips, Patrick

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

By: Phillips, Patrick

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2017

Seller ID: 153471

ISBN-13: 9780393354737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white "night riders" launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of ho...
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Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems

By: Phillips, Patrick

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Knopf : September 2017

Seller ID: 476290

ISBN-13: 9780804172943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Now in paperback, this stunning collection of elegies--a finalist for the National Book Award--bears witness to the small beauties and inevitable losses of our transient life. Elegy for a Broken Machine is a son's lament for his father. It takes us from the luminous world of childhood to the fluorescent glare of operating rooms and recovery wards, and into the twilight lives of those who must go on. In one poem Phillips watches his sons play Mercy just as he did with his brother: hands laced, the stronger pushing the other back until he grunts for mercy, a game we played // so many times / I f...
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Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems

By: Phillips, Patrick

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Knopf : September 2017

Seller ID: 476484

ISBN-13: 9780804172943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now in paperback, this stunning collection of elegies--a finalist for the National Book Award--bears witness to the small beauties and inevitable losses of our transient life. Elegy for a Broken Machine is a son's lament for his father. It takes us from the luminous world of childhood to the fluorescent glare of operating rooms and recovery wards, and into the twilight lives of those who must go on. In one poem Phillips watches his sons play Mercy just as he did with his brother: hands laced, the stronger pushing the other back until he grunts for mercy, a game we played // so many times / I f...
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Author: Phillips, Patrick

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems

Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems

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