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"Growing pains" is the follow up book to Ms. Traylor's debut book, "The First Twenty Two Years" which sold over 700 copies. "Growing Pains" challenges readers to view the world around us through the eyes of the
author. "Growing Pains" attempts to capture the realities fo living life as an African American in today's society and transform those realities into rythmic rhetoric. Growing Pains combines selected pieces from Ms. Traylor's old work with her new work in order for readers to truely experience the author's growth as a poet and a person.
Please visit WWW.Tifftraylor.com to read excerpts from the book and to learn more about the person behind the poetry. | | | | The First Twenty-Two Years
“The First Twenty-Two Years,” is full of thought provoking poems from an African American woman’s point of view. The content of the poetry stems from the common human experiences that we all have. It touches upon traditional and controversial topics such as relationships, love, sexism, racism, and homosexuality. However, the poets play on words and poetic style turns the usual into unique and the controversial into clever. The book is entertaining as well as enlightening. The Author uses her poetry as a form of personal growth and self-expression; in return she hopes that individual readers |
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Still Living on my Feet
by Tichaona Chinyelu
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 Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep |
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