Every now and then, someone will contact me (via internet, a friend or in person) and ask, "Will you read this for me, please, and tell me what you think?" Well, I'm about to share with you "what I think" of one of the most spiritually pleasurable reads I've had in quite some time. I'll probably say this more than once, but I urge you to get a slice of this. Patricia A. Johnson's Broken and Battered, Yet I Rise: A Synopsis through Poetry in the Life of a Battered Wife goes beyond the well-known Waiting to Exhale, Burning Bed, Enough, and The Diary of a Mad Black woman. Within the pages of...