Name: Roseland by Raymond Berry
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Roseland by Raymond Berry

Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating

$19.99

The poems in Raymond Berry‘s Roseland catch moments of Chicago life by the scruff of the neck, creating snapshots of violence, pain, and beauty that are both unsparing and startlingly gentle. His poems don’t hurry; rather they follow a rhythm that invariably leads to surprising truths.

–Martha Bayne is a senior editor at Belt Publishing and author of the narrative cookbook Soup & Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time

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Roseland

by Raymond Berry

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-195-8

2020

Raymond Berry is a native Chicagoan and poet. His works appears in Reverie, To Be Left With the Body, Spaces Between Us, Warpland, City Brink, Cactus Heart, Assaracus, Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology, the recent Stonewall Legacy Anthology, and the forthcoming Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook by Belt Publishing. He is the author of one previous collection, Diagnosis.

1 review for Roseland by Raymond Berry

Rated 5 out of 5

Julene Weaver (verified owner) – June 7, 2020

Powerful poems. The first section of the book is about the neighborhood—Roseland in Chicago’s south side. The second section is titled Blood Ties. Raymond Berry writes hard impactful words that build potent images about real lives, we feel the suffering, enter their world and begin to understand the systemic conditions that have impacted Black people for generations. This is an important book.