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Hoops

by Major Jackson · 2006

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A collection of poetic meditations by the National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist author of Leaving Saturn evaluates the solemn richness of everyday lives, from a grandfather who gardens in a tenement backyard to a teacher to renames her black students after French painters.

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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 125 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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