Magic City Gospel by Ashley M. Jones

By Ashley M. Jones

Magic urban Gospel is a love music to Birmingham, the Magic urban of the South. In conventional varieties and loose verse poems, 2015 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award-winner Ashley M. Jones takes readers on an old, geographical, cultural, and private trip via her lifestyles and the lifetime of her domestic nation. From De Soto’s “discovery” of Alabama to George Wallace’s notorious stance within the schoolhouse door, to the murders of black males like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner in glossy the USA, Jones weaves own background with the , effective, and intricate background of Birmingham, and of Alabama at huge. during this guaranteed debut, you’ll locate why “gold is laced in Alabama’s teeth.” within the ghosts and the grits, this assortment speaks to Jones' iteration and past: “Let me wash you in Alabama warmth / and let you know who you are.” Magic urban Gospel is a booklet of non-public, political, and cultural historical past, whose pink dust stained pages supply a clean and unvarnished gaze on Birmingham, Alabama, and America.

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