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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A National Book Award finalist <i>and</i> National Book Critics Circle Award winner.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Honored in Best Books of the Year listings from <i>The New Yorker</i>, National Public Radio, <i>Library Journal</i>, and The Huffington Post.</b></p><p><i>One With Others</i> represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet.--<i>The New Yorker</i></p><p>[A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own.-- National Public Radio</p><p>[A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy.--<i>Booklist</i></p><p><i>Today, Gentle Reader, <br>the sermon once again: Segregation<br>After Death. Showers in the a.m.<br>The threat they say is moving from the east.<br>The sheriff's club says Not now. Not<br>nokindofhow. Not never. The children's<br>minds say Never waver. Air<br>fanned by a flock of hands in the old<br>funeral home where the meetings<br>were called [because Mrs. Oliver<br>owned it free and clear], and<br>that selfsame air, sanctified<br>and doomed, rent with racism, and<br>it percolates up from the soil itself . . . </i></p><p>In this National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines explosive incidents grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories--especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vittitow--with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, and activists. This history leaps howling off the page.</p><p><b>C.D. Wright</b> has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose. Among her honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>C.D. Wright: C.D. Wright has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose, including the recent volumes One With Others, which was nominated for a National Book Award, One Big Self: An Investigation, and Rising Falling Hovering. Among her many honors are the Robert Creeley Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island. <p/>

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