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Book

The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature

Call Number

  • 921 L2878 (CEN, POW, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.

Physical Description

216 pages ; 22 cm

Notes

Photographs used as end papers.

Contents

  • Me : an introduction
  • FLOCK
  • The home place
  • Mamatha takes flight
  • A good name
  • A field guide to the four
  • First-Sunday God
  • FLEDGLING
  • Little brown Icarus
  • Whose eye is on the sparrow
  • Cows
  • Life's spring
  • FLIGHT
  • The bluebird of enlightenment
  • Hoops
  • Birding while black
  • Jawbone
  • New religion
  • Thinking
  • Digging
  • Family reunion
  • Patchwork legacy.

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