![]() ![]() In “America,” a young slave woman, Julia Frances Lewis – “my song/fell to the rhythm of his coming/hoof beats and he swung me to his mare/in one course pull” In “George Manoa Hall,” an imprisoned Confederate soldier – “I wear/the wind through August thunder, ride/my quiet song of delirium, and bathe/in each day’s hundred deaths.” ![]() The first poem, “First Edition, 1924,” establishes a theme for the collection in its lines exploring “what we/own, what we know, and how long/we hold the things we receive.” From there Dickson Blackburn looks the past square in the eye, alternately taking on voices from history and exploring her own life: The poems in CAMEO weave the complexities of family, Southern, American, and even world history in a striking, personal way. ![]() Cameo by Melissa Dickson Blackburn, from New Plains Press ![]()
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