In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its "Affrilacian" residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life and the living and dead commingle. Ghosts, self-propelled caskets, and sensate trees are as natural as morning glories to these characters, who are at once eccentric and universal, peculiar and welcoming. Spoken in intersecting and overlapping monologues, the poems create a refreshing portrait of small-town life, with its mix of quotidian concerns and...

An eclectic collection of new poetry including an innovative "text-in-body" section. Topics range from the highly controversial and political (as well as disturbingly, intimately personal) to the softly humorous and quietly meditative. To be performed and / or not. Illustrations & b/w photographs (by author).