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The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction
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The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction

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 / 11 December 2020

In the stormy year of 2020 PopMatters' staff have clung to anything seemingly solid with one hand while holding a good book in the other. Through it all, we are curious, engaged, and eager to share what we've read with you.

Jaki Shelton Green Blends Poetry and Protest on Timely ‘The River Speaks of Thirst’
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Jaki Shelton Green Blends Poetry and Protest on Timely ‘The River Speaks of Thirst’

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 / 18 June 2020

Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst is at once a political statement, cultural commentary, and an aesthetic milestone, a skillful commingling of galvanic activism and evocative poetry.