THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION A is for Affrilachia Frank X Walker ◆ Picture book A is for Affrilachia Frank X Walker An illustrated alphabet introduces places, people, and traditions in Black Appalachia.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Affrilachia Frank X Walker ◆ Poetry Affrilachia Frank X Walker Walker’s poems insist on the visibility of Black lives in the language and geography of Appalachia.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Belonging: A Culture of Place bell hooks ◆ Essays Belonging: A Culture of Place bell hooks Essays on place, race, land, and return connect hooks’s Kentucky roots with a wider ethic of belonging.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Perfect Black Crystal Wilkinson ◆ Poetry Perfect Black Crystal Wilkinson Poems consider color, family, girlhood, and the landscapes that shaped Wilkinson’s sense of home.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts Crystal Wilkinson ◆ Memoir Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts Crystal Wilkinson Recipes and recollections connect Appalachian foodways with the stories of Black women across generations.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION The Birds of Opulence Crystal Wilkinson ◆ Fiction The Birds of Opulence Crystal Wilkinson Generations of women in a Kentucky community live with losses and knowledge that are carried through families.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Water Street Crystal Wilkinson ◆ Short stories Water Street Crystal Wilkinson Linked stories enter the lives of neighbors in a small Kentucky community, revealing their private and shared histories.
