Praise Song for the Gravediggers: poems by Octavia McBride-Ahebee

by Octavia McBride-Ahebee

This poetry collection, "Praise Song for the Gravediggers", delivers a geography of women whose stories, once historically silenced, rise to the top to be heard and considered. Readers meet the likes of Aminata, a Malian woman, who crossed both the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea finally landing in an urban, U.S. city where she, undocumented, braids working class African-American girls'/women's heads using the hair Indian girls/women donated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1792945213
• ISBN13: 9781792945212
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"