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THE LYRICBOOK COLLECTION The Historic Lyric

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2 books

Poetry

Rice

Nikky Finney

Rice ties family stories and foodways to Black Southern histories of labor and survival.

Speculative fiction

Wild Seed

Octavia E. Butler

Two long-lived figures clash over control, survival, and the meaning of kinship.