Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations New_Release Tessa and Corrick must decide

Tessa and Corrick must decide who they can trust--including each other

we’ll have to make a choice: fight for a future together

A finalist for the National Book Award in NonfictionA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction

a night of impossible dreams and unexpected chances

Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations New_Release Tessa and Corrick must decideThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press. At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was suddenly upended. "I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world.," she recalls. "I even stopped praying, but I began