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Navigating poetic traditions.(3 books on poetry)(Book Review)

The Women's Review of Books

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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 ...
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