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Becoming Ebony by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003, 79 pp., paper.
Swimming with Dolphins by Adrian Oktenberg. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002, 105 pp., $19.95 hardcover.
I Will Say Beauty by Carol Frost. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003, 79 pp., $14.95 paper.
So I come out screaming," writes the Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley in her remarkable second book Becoming Ebony, in the very first poem, "My Birth at the Doorpost":
So I come out screaming, head first, the way they wished me out. If they had asked me, I would have come out legs ...