Picking Scabs from the Body History

by Joanne Godley

Picking Scabs from the Body History, opens with an ode to a library wherein a nine-year-old girl is invited in to read. She quickly discovers, in the book she picks up (We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People), a historical narrative fraught with injustices that "bristles the hair on my fearful arms," and sees photos of "lynching victims" and "treed men swing with hung heads/ mouths stuffed full."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948461633
• ISBN13: 9781948461634
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Poetry Box
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"