Tar Heel Born: A Native Son Speaks on Race Religion & Reconciliation

Tar Heel Born is a collection of seven narrative poems that reflect on one mans conflicted relationship with his home state of North Carolina. It flows between critique and praise interweaving the brute ugliness of racism and anti-gay attitudes with the love of a beautiful land and the graciousness of a people. Ultimately Tar Heel Born is a love letter to home a vividly universal example of using childhood challenges as a springboard to greater self-discovery and acceptance. (Also includes the bonus poem Obamanon: Living the Obama Phenomenon.)