MB 5/04.

"Home" from The prisoner's wife / asha bandele -- From Black ice / Lorene Cary -- From Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- From Willow weep for me: a black woman's journey through depression / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah -- "Children of the sea" from Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat -- "Beginning again" from An American story / Debra J. Dickerson -- "Wonderful teen" from Don't erase me / Carolyn Ferrell -- "Markers" from Break any woman down / Dana Johnson -- "It's racier in the Bahamas" from Bulletproof diva: tales of race, sex, and hair / Lisa Jones -- From The serpent's gift / Helen Elaine Lee -- "July 1978" from The book of Sarahs: a family in parts / Catherine E. McKinley -- "What's love got to do with it?" from Every good-bye ain't gone / Itabari Njeri -- "The stranger" / ZZ Packer -- "April 1974 - Johnson Creek" from Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry -- From The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- "Leila, 1998" from Song of the water saints / Nelly Rosario -- "Body of Luce Rivera" from Caucasia / Danzy Senna -- "Wall of pain" from The fall of Rome / Martha Southgate -- From Girl in the mirror: three generations of black women in motion / Natasha Tarpley -- "Nepenthe" from Glow in the dark / Lisa Teasley -- "Larchmont" from Black, white, and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self / Rebecca Walker -- "On our way to beautiful" from On our way to beautiful / Yolanda Young -- "Lover" from Black girl in Paris / Shay Youngblood.