The Heiress/Ghost Acres

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"In her latest poetry collection, Lightsey Darst is investigating parenthood and ancestry from a number of perspectives: her experience mothering small children during dark and challenging times, her relationship to her own mother, and the genetic and historical inheritance she's received from her family-including ancestors who owned slaves. Having moved back to the South, all these ideas also connect to the physical land she inhabits, and the privileges she still benefits from"--