The Book of Alice

From award-winning author Diamond Forde comes a stunningly powerful poetry collection exploring lineage and the legacy of survival as seen through the life of her grandmother Alice—a Black woman born in the Jim Crow South—using the King James Bible as a narrative framework. “Alice / a god-song, swings still in the high / branch of our throats. I miss her, wonder / what she plants in heaven’s mulch.” When her grandmother Alice died, poet Diamond Forde inherited a well-worn copy of the KJV Bible t