Unveiling Hidden Worlds: How Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ The Flower Bearers Transforms Grief Into Art
She details how the killings of Black youth such as Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice influenced her poetry and inspired her activism and does a superb job explaining to a white reader such as myself how the news of every killing wore her out and how it links arms with the trauma of her ancestors. Not all is sad in Writersville as illustrated by a moving chapter about Griffiths being introduced to her literary hero Toni Morrison, a magical moment when she walks down a New York sidewalk in conversation with E.L. Doctorow, and, of course, the charming tale of her meet-cute with Rushdie.
