Wistful, powerful, and unsparing, the poems in Grace Engine defy neat categorization: they are fluid, they are erasures of erasures, text struck through with lines, and full of persona. Walking the line between the elegy and the historical record, these poems ask the world to bear witness to ghosts, to the Black men and women lynched like Jim McIherron and Laura Nelson, Hazel “Hayes” Turner and Mary Turner.

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