{"product_id":"copeland-lilley-gary-high-water-everywhere","title":"Copeland Lilley, Gary: High Water Everywhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eAquarius Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 29, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLilley's collection addresses flashpoints in African American history including the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and Hurricane Katrina. Second edition with new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEXCERPT:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColonel Waddell on the Morning of November 10, 1898\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eHigh Water Everywhere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey vote Republican black. They walk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur streets with their heads up, with more freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThan a white man, and now we have been made\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo conduct our city's business under\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rule of carpet-baggers and negroes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite men will suffer eternally\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf we do not honor that it's our blood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes North Carolina sacred ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf we don't act they'll soon have the land\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd all our grand history that's on it:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Confederate graves, all the gray men\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom all our families, to their proud deaths\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive glory, honor the white way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet black bodies choke the Cape Fear River.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45501600595991,"sku":"9781737987659","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/high-water-everywhere-2nd-ed-front-cover.jpg?v=1788987693","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/copeland-lilley-gary-high-water-everywhere","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}