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Visionary, charged with tense grace, Crystal Williams’ new collection Detroit as Barn is an extraordinary act of redemption. Language becomes fact, agency, and what it makes is real as brick. More real: Williams’ desperate and ecstatic poetry takes us beyond Simulacrum Detroit, the stage-set of crisis capitalism, to the human landscape of absolute potential and contingency.Williams’ aim is to reclaim a world, knowing that the signposts have been deliberately mislabeled—“history is nothing more/than a chronic transfer of limitations,/a way of understanding/who we might have been & who we are/is bodies born of shackles.” Williams’ taut lines are wild to intervene, to create new forms.This book is a journey, from the stunted myths we inhabit towards a city still to be acknowledged, a city of living women and men.

From the Back Cover What would you do for love? Chrystelle Yvette Lexington loves God with all of her heart. When she s given the chance to hook up with her crush, Jared Jerome Jenkins, Chrystelle soon realizes she have a serious decision to make. How far should you go for love? Chrystelle wants God, but she wants Jared too. She s had a crush on Jared since junior high, and now she finally has her chance to be with him. The fact that she s a devoted Christian and he s a rebel shouldn t matter; should it? Chrystelle knows if that line is crossed, there is no turning back. Can Chrystelle hold onto God and Jared, or does she put God on the back burner, and make Jared happy instead?

How long would you wait for love? Jared is in jail, and Chrystelle is pregnant. Will she keep the baby? There is no distance in love; but when Jared is taken away, will their relationship withstand the test of time? Chrystelle rededicates herself to God after things go downhill in her life; but does she stay with Him for good, or just until things get better for her?

What do you do, when you don't know what to do?Chrystelle is experiencing a rough time in her life; and she feels as though God has left her to go through it alone. She is trying to be optimistic about the future, but she can't seem to get over her past; and it's starting to get the best of her.She questioned God's whereabouts while enduring unfair treatment in her marriage of ten years; and she wondered where He was now. Did He see her? Did He even care? What was He doing? Will Chrystelle find the strength to hold on to God or will she take matters into her own hands and answer to God later?

Celebrated designer, writer, activist, and educator Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller's memoir of a life in advocacy and her journey to answer the question "Where are the Black designers?"Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller is one of the design field's most respected figures. She is legendary for her decades of scholarship and activism and is known as a touchstone and conscience for the design profession. This long-awaited book documents the history of the question she has been asking for decades: “Where are the Black designers?” along with related questions that are urgent to the design profession: Where did they originate? Where have they been? Why haven't they been represented in design histories and canons? Holmes-Miller traces her development as a designer and leader, beginning with her own family and its rich multiethnic history. She narrates her experiences as a design student at Rhode Island School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Pratt, leading up to her oft-cited Pratt thesis examining barriers to success for Black designers. Holmes-Miller describes the work of her eponymous studio for noted clients that included NASA, Time Inc., and the nascent Black Entertainment Television, as well as the story of her later critiques of the industry in the design press, most notably in Print magazine. Miller also recounts the parallel history of collective efforts by fellow scholars and advocates over the past fifty years to identify and celebrate Black designers. Enhanced with a foreword by Crystal Williams, president of Rhode Island School of Design, award-winning poet, and noted advocate for equity and justice in the fields of art and education, HERE is part memoir, part investigation, and part urgent call for justice and recognition for Black designers, making it an invaluable resource for graphic design professionals, teachers, and students.