From the foreword: "In Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson walks us
back down the road she first walked as a girl, wanders us through
the trees that lined the road where she grew up, where her
sensibilities as a woman and a writer were first laid bare. In one
of the first poems that opens the collection she is a woman looking
back on her life, on the soil and mountains that first stamped the
particular sound of her voice and she is deeply inquisitive about
how it all fell into place: "The map of me can't be all hills&
mountains even though I've been country all my life. The twang in
my voice has moved downhill to the flat land a time or two."
Perfect Black is a book of poems and legends about ancestry,
culture, and the terrain of a Black girl becoming. It is a narrow
and spacious terrain that enters the bloodstream of this black
writing girl's body early. It is a country that she never truly
exits even though different zip codes continue to fly through her
wild, wondrous, winding life. We read and we hold on too.
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