Praise Song for the Gravediggers: poems by Octavia McBride-Ahebee

By Octavia McBride-Ahebee

This poetry collection, "Praise Song for the Gravediggers", delivers a geography of women whose stories, once historically silenced, rise to the top to be heard and considered. Readers meet the likes of Aminata, a Malian woman, who crossed both the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea finally landing in an urban, U.S. city where she, undocumented, braids working class African-American girls'/women's heads using the hair Indian girls/women donated to their religious shrines to receive blessings; no money. All this feminine intersection, this cast of global females, gathering in the flesh or in hair, in unassuming salons, in the hood is magical, yet buoyed by undercurrents of structural, economic inequities. This collection brings women from all backgrounds into a fertile space where world history, economic systems and current events meet to form an oasis of human exchange and storytelling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1792945213
• ISBN13: 9781792945212
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"