Obama’s Children: Poems by Earl S. Braggs

Obama’s Children: Poems by Earl S. Braggs

A universal quest for human dignity and acknowledgement made specific through the Black experience.

“Earl Braggs is his own man. His poems are a personal and public history of America told in numerous personas, poetic syntax, and a dancing rhythmic narrative that carries the reader into stories that seem familiar yet are often a bit askew. It’s like looking at the world through old glass windows—streets, cars, trees, people, and history are wavy and grainy but not untrue. The truth is in the spirit, in the heart of the work and the poet. Book after book reveals what it’s like to be a Black man in the United States, and therefore, what it’s like to be an American.” —Rick Campbell, author of Provenance and Gunshot, Peacock, Dog