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In this memoir, the poet and scholar Tyrone Williams recounts his upbringing in Detroit in a Black working-class family in the Sixties, and reflects on social mobility, and the relationship between his own work and his father’s work.
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Williams, T. (2019). Floating On—If Not Up—Ward. In: Walton, J., Luker, E. (eds) Poetry and Work. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26125-2_14
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