Speaker, Writer, Poet
A Collection of Paper Ducks
A Book About Becoming
(Daylight Press, ISBN: 0-9641971-0-3)
Reviews
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"[The] poems are wonderful ! I like...the images
and stories..."
SONIA SANCHEZ
“Honest, well versed, full of passion and simplicity, her poems conjure the spirits from Africa to the plantation, to church socials, to the beauty shop, and even the secret places. Her words bring focus and purpose...”
JAMES CHAPMYN
Playwright, Our
Young Black Men Are Dying And No One
Seems To Care
“The poems are fresh, new, joyful, thoughtful and enlightening... Freeman gifts us with a reading gem which gives a unique look at life...Reading this work is like resting one’s eyes by looking away for a moment. The mind is refreshed again and again...”
DOROTHY EARLY DAVIS
Reference Librarian, Southern University
This Collection Includes the Poem, "Sing Me The Song of My People" as featured in ESSENCE Magazine. Her poetry covers such topics as Self Esteem... Domestic Violence... Social Consciousness... Women’s Issues... Cultural Identity... Women’s poetry at its best !
SHELTER
My mother never told me
I was not beautiful.
Zits and rotten teeth
crowned with silver and gold,
she loved me
so that when I laughed, she said,
she could always see the gold of me
flashing in the light...
THE FAT LADY IN THE BACK
Preachers would preach and she would
chant and cheer and laugh and cry
and Amen the preacher...
and stand on strong feet raising me
with those great arms....
where I could look over a seaof big hats and tight girdles,
a million handkerchiefs waving
like so many clouds in the sky...
Publisher: Daylight Press, P.O. Box 755, Bellefonte,
PA 16823, (814) 353-3385
ISBN: 0-9641971-0-3, Format: 5.5” x 8.5”, Trade Paper,
45 pages
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Collection of Paper Ducks Now!
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Cache
A Book About Leaving And Finding The Way
Home
(Daylight Press, ISBN: 0-9641971-1-1)
Review
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Freeman’s new work is fresh and insightful, combining the every day mundane with
the philosophical unheard thoughts of an African American woman. As one of few
ethnic women holding an Engineering degree, her perspective of the African
American experience is rather unique, yet familiar , as racism is familiar, and
universal as the search for self identity.
-Daylight Press
Cache is a poetic journey from the
familiar to the edge of the earth and back to the wisdom of all our Mothers.
It is about self discovery, written in three phases entitled:
Left
Left the church
Righting wrongs
Ten pounds Lighter
Singing Songs...
Mender of the Skies
But the sky fell down
like so many crackers
scattering the floor
with crumbs
and blue dust...
Family Reunion
Until now I had never seen
my own heart
beating ...
Cache is about finding the purpose of one’s Journey.
Publisher: Daylight Press, P.O. Box 755, Bellefonte,
PA 16823, (814) 353-3385
ISBN: 0-9641971-1-1, Format: 5.5” x 8.5”, Trade Paper,
64 pages
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Retail: $12.95
