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.