Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (New Poets of America)

Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what originally drew me to Harrington s manuscript and what continues to pull me back. We learn the story of Lillian and Webster and their children and grandchildren, a black family living a hardscrabble life in the rural South more than sixty years ago. Set on the cusp of the Civil Rights era, the poems chronicle a way of life that has long since vanished. Elizabeth Spires, from the foreword

Janice N. Harrington is an award-winning children s book author and a nationally recognized storyteller. She works as a librarian in Champaign, Illinois.