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	Nagueyalti Warren’s Braided Memory gives us an exquisite double portrait: of a sturdy, self-determined woman steeped in the harshness of the Jim Crow South, and of her young granddaughter, a California girl, who casts a jaundiced eye on rutted country roads and a white Jesus, but soaks up love and priceless permission (“keep your spunk” ) along with cooking lessons and pithy realism: “you ain’t in L.A. and I/have to live here.” Love is specific, and it’s the marvelous specificity of Warren’s eye for detail (“Vaseline on my bony knees/orange blossom behind each ear”), together with her crisp sense of timing, that makes her storytelling soar. From a stinging meditation on African ancestors' complicity in the slave trade to warm profiles of Miss Dot, Feen, Uncle Pappy, and Lulu (“so like Dorothy Dandridge”), Braided Memory powerfully conveys Warren’s view of heritage as a living, changing, future-directed force. -Jan Clausen author of From a Glass House and If You Like Difficulty	Price $12.00
	About Nagueyalti Warren: Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies. B.A. (Fisk University); M.A. (Simmons College); M.A. (Boston University) M.F.A. (Goddard College); Ph.D. (University of Mississippi). Her teaching and research specialties are African American literature, specifically women’s fiction, creative writing, mainly poetry, and W.E. B. Du Bois’ contribution to the field of African American Studies, the topic of her dissertation. Dr. Warren’s current research projects include research for a book on the writings of Alice Walker. Her recent publications include an edited anthology of poetry by Black women from through out the Diaspora titled Temba Tupu (Walking Naked) Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait published by Africa World Press, and Margaret a persona poem, winner of the 2008 Naomi Madgett Long Poetry Award and published by Lotus Press. Recently she completed her first novel. For the past seventeen years Warren served as Assistant then as Associate Dean in the Office for Under-graduate Education. Her appointment to the core faculty in African American Studies took place Fall 2005.