The Fight

Winner of the 2022 Trio Award and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award , Jennifer Manthey's The Fight showcases Manthey's experience with adoption, alongside the actions of Varina Davis, history's only First Lady of the Confederate States, to present readers with the complexity of adoption, especially in the case of white mothers with Black children. Her poetry is intimate, tender, and full of potency, navigating "truth