Trapped @ Girlhood, Trapped @ Adolescence, Awakened Memory, Knocking (To the Ancestors)

Opal Palmer Adisa

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Opal Palmer Adisa
California College of the Arts
United States

A literary critic, poet, prose writer, storyteller and artist. Her published works are: Eros Muse, essays & poetry, Africa World Press, 2006; Caribbean Passion, poetry, PeepalTree Press, 2004; The Tongue Is a Drum (poetry/jazz CD with Devorah Major) 2002; Leaf-of-Life, poetry, Jukebox Press, 2000; It Begins With Tears, novel, Heinemann, 1997; Tamarind and Mango Women, poetry, 1992, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award WINNER; traveling women, 1989; Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories, 1986 and Pina, The Many-Eyed Fruit, children's book, 1985; Fierce/Love(poetry/jazz recording with Devorah Major), 1992. Her story collection, Until Judgment Comes, PeepalTree Press November 2006.

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Trapped @ Girlhood, Trapped @ Adolescence, Awakened Memory, Knocking (To the Ancestors)

Opal Palmer Adisa

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as a girl
not yet ten years old
i heard
whispers

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ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness. ISSN: 1543-0855 (online).
Editor: Dr. Darlene V. Russell.

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Trapped @ Girlhood, Trapped @ Adolescence, Awakened Memory, Knocking (To the Ancestors)

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