Filling in the Black
One Woman's Journey of Re-education
“Powerful, Powerful, Powerful!!
The first line of “A Crumbling Facade grabbed my heart… white tears for a black man.”
-Voncille Wright, Dean of Students, Austin TX Community College
“Joan’s language is clean , unadorned, a scaffold for observation. She does not insult the subject by indulging in hyperbole or self-serving flourish. An unflinching journey of fiscovery. searing, honest, unsparing.”
-Virginia Shreve, CT Beat Poet Laureate, Canton CT Poet Laureate<