The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New PoemsSuffused with pain and power, Minnie Bruce Pratt's poetry is as evocative of the swamps and streets of the southern United States as it is of the emotional lives of those too often forced into the margins of society. Vivid, lush, and intensely honest, these poems capture the rough edges of the world and force us to pay attention. |
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Learning to Write | 1 |
We Say We Love Each Other 1985 | 19 |
Crime Against Nature 1990 | 49 |
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