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Summary: A lot to learn
Review: Jessica Care Moore's The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto is a poet self-publishing, self-celebrating, self-healing journey. Not unlike many artists, this Detroit raised, New York based writer/performer carries emotional scars that can only be mended by the pen. She writes, "...are artists destined to write our dreams...lonely, depressed, alcoholic and married to the craft...who think a vow of poverty and solitude is honorable I say find magic in your turkey bacon...and eat...." Her collection of poetry is an overhand right thrown against hopelessness, the legacy of slavery in America. In this effort it is obvious this writer is in transition, has talent, and offers promise.
From Odes for AIDS victims, "for the more than 28 million people living with AIDS in Africa...I write so their lives are not in vain...I hope we walk loud so no one else dies in silence," to Haiku for her son, "I did not make him, I never made anything, that I truly love," one gets the sense that Jessica Care Moore is rightly named, and indeed does care very strongly about everything. As she continues to craft her skill from stage to page I look forward to that perfect poetic storm in future work.
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