Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Lawyers & Judges This is about what grows

This is about what grows through the wreckage

but when a random trip to a clothing store brings these two lovers back together

she's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life"

"--Off Our Backs

" --Deesha Philyaw

Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Lawyers & Judges This is about what growsThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press. At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was suddenly upended. "I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world.," she recalls. "I even stopped praying, but I began