To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul is by Pulitzer-winning poet Tracy K. Smith. You could say it’s about her family, or America, or Slavery and Jim Crow. You could call it memoir, history, and reflection built with facts and observations, filled in by imagination and visions. A lot of it I would call liquid poetry. Smith is a tremendous writer. Here’s what Kirkus Reviews calls it:
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