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American Happiness
Jacqueline Allen Trimble
NEWSOUTH BOOKS
Montgomery
NewSouth Books
105 S. Court Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
Copyright © 2016 by Jacqueline Allen Trimble. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by NewSouth Books, a division of NewSouth, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama.
ISBN: 978-1-58838-327-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60306-420-0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016949493
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For my husband, Joseph, with love.
Thank you for saving my life.
Contents
Preface: How My Mother Taught Me to Write Poems
Everybody in America Hate the South
Did Jean Paul Sartre Ever Ask Simone de Beauvoir to Go to the Winn-Dixie?
Family Photograph: A Conjugation
Cinderella Finds Happiness with Her Third Husband
So Much that Fascinates Is the Blood
How A Woman Carves Poetry of Her Bones
A Woman Explains the World to Her Children
A Woman Tells the History of Her People
The Klan Panhandles for Donations at the Intersection of Court Street and the Southern Bypass
How To Survive as a Black Woman Everywhere in America Including the Deep South
What if Barbie Were a Reality TV Star?
The Street Committee Meeting Is Now in Session
Gun Collector Shoots Unarmed Black College Student for Playing Music Too Loud
