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Tourmalines Beyond the Ebony Portal

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Author: Kathryn Waddell Takara
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0984122820
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Publisher: Pacific Raven Press
Pub. Date: 2010
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Price: $14
 
 

Tourmalines: Beyond the Ebony Portal is a collection of poems with a focus on Black history and African Americans, named and unnamed. Black lives are represented as various, colorful gemstones and themes corresponding to the colorful tourmaline gemstones with a variety of characteristics and healing properties. Because every tourmaline is different, one can use the stones as metaphors for the diversity of African Americans who are mixed with people of various origins: African, Native American, European and Euro American, Caribbean, South American, and Asian. This cultural melange produces in Tourmalines a rich, colorful collection of poetic gemstones. 

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Kathryn Waddell Takara

Kathryn Waddell Takara, born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, has recently retired as an Associate Professor from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Interdisciplinary Studies Program. She also taught in the Ethnic Studies Department, where she developed courses in African American and African politics, history, literature, and culture beginning in 1971. Her poetry has been published in a variety of publications including Interdisciplinary Studies Humanities Journal, Writing Macao (China), Kudzu, Honolulu Stories, Words Upon the Waters,


 
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Tourmalines Beyond the Ebony Portal

Tourmalines Beyond the Ebony Portal
Kathryn Waddell Takara
ISBN: 978-0984122820

$14

 
 
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