Jones: Lissen Here (book, special order)

Lissen Here! This book began life as a meld of black history and a celebration of black womanhood. It is factual, anecdotal, autobiographical. It is born of remembered snatches of my own , and anybody else’s family lore; of provocative family nicknames; of knotted, worked-out hands of my grandmother’ folded so patiently in her lap. It is the fruit of a lifetime of standing back and watching the relentless energies of a race of stricken people, steadily galvanizing toward liberation. It is listening, always listening, to the cadence, the flow, the pungent getting-to-the-heart of it, that is our speech. Dorothy Mallory Jones (1920-2019)