The Other Revival

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I want to know what you know about my people</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I said to the caretaker's granddaughter. </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I want you to tell me something about them. </em></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Other Revival</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems revolves around a house built in Harpersville Alabama in 1841. Thirty-nine people enslaved by Samuel Wallace the owner of the property constructed the house and worked the land. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For generations the house remained in the Wallace family and is now a reconciliation center where Black white and mixed-race descendants come together. Salaam Green has led many of these gatherings and worked with descendants to create these and many other poems. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Other Revival</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is her poetic journey to one rural place that is a crossroads of racial economic and enslavement heritage. It is an elegy and a blessing. </span></p>