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Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone.(Brief article)(Book review)
Harrington, an award-winning author of children's books, sets her first poetry collection mainly in Alabama during the civil-rights era. Her rich, colloquial poems, drawing on both folklore and science, are paeans to a weary but tenacious black family and their journey north through "a night as wide as the River Jordan." Certain family members reappear throughout the book--"Webster tall / and flaming ...
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