Brown: Poems History Ada knows it's up to

Ada knows it's up to her to find the source

Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship to power―and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template

their Jewish identity

We meet the lonely

some well-known and some less familiar

Brown: Poems History Ada knows it's up toDivided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History" a song of Kansas high school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students "the Sixties minus Malcolm X, or Watts, barely a march on Washington" to "Money Road," a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's