A mirror to the book of poems Maafa, on a personal level, it is the real life analog to the myth of her, through a look at the facts of the author's life and the lives of some of her favorite people--the events and elans and gestures that shape or try to shape our lives. Instead of looking at reparations as a primarily financial debt, Reparations looks at both what has been visited upon the author's body and spirit and the bodies and...