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An edition of Tale of a sky-blue dress (1998)

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In this, her first prose work, the author of six books of poetry and winner of the most distinguished honors - including a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and a Whiting Award - delivers a passionate, and moving memoir.

It is the story of the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved to Ohio from the segregated South of the fifties. Raised with much love, she flourished until the age of five, when disaster struck, in the form of a girl in a sky-blue dress. Her childhood was shattered by this girl, her babysitter, who took pleasure from inflicting pain, and whose reign of terror, even after its abrupt end, would send poisonous tendrils further into her life.

Yet ultimately, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress is about how a young woman retrieved her life from the grasp of darkness. It is about refusing to accept tyranny.

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Bard
Language
English
Pages
259

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Subjects
African American poets, African American women, American Poets, Biography, Childhood and youth, Poets, American, Social life and customs, American Women poets, African American women poets, New York Times reviewed, African americans, biography, Poets, biography, Ohio, social life and customs
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Thylias Moss
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Ohio
Times
20th century

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Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress
1999, HarperCollins Publishers
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Tale of a sky-blue dress
1998, Bard
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Biography.

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813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O8856 Z47 1998, PS3563.O8856Z47 1998

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259 p. ;
Number of pages
259

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OL357641M
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taleofskybluedre00moss
ISBN 10
0380975505
LCCN
98017552
OCLC/WorldCat
38856226
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315265
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1268913

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