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The book of Alice : poems / Diamond Forde.

Forde, Diamond, (author.).

Summary:

In The Book of Alice, poet Diamond Forde honors her grandmother by recounting her life through the language and structure of the King James Bible, the only poetry her grandmother knew. Born in the Jim Crow South, Alice migrated to New York City during the Great Migration, where she married, divorced, and raised eight children while navigating racism and personal hardship. Blending found documents--such as recipes, a family tree, and census records--with imagined psalms and scriptures, Forde draws parallels between biblical narratives and marginalized Black experiences, creating both an elegy and a reimagined sacred text.

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  • ISBN: 9781668078402
  • ISBN: 1668078406
  • Physical Description: x, 82 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2026.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Record of deaths: Diamond Forde -- Family tree -- Genesis -- Exodus -- Daughters -- Lamentations -- Revelations.
Awards Note:
James Laughlin Award, 2025.

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American poetry > 21st century.
African American women > Poetry.
Bible. English > Poetry.
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Poetry.

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