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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Roselyn X and Other Poetry
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'Roselyn X, a young Black prostitute, has terminal cancer and a very small child. She is angry at fate, racism, sexism, and her loss of home and culture. Roselyn Y, masquerading as Roselyn X relays her feelings and pleas in a series of 22 cantos in a collection of poetry. Roselyn’s story is not all dark, it offers light and hope. Her story should never have happened; nothing has changed for Aboriginal Australians; little has changed for women and issues of sexism — or racism; and Black Deaths in Custody still generations on; let alone drug issues over that 50 year landscape of all of the poetry in this book. Black lives around the world rate a lesser value than the deaths of White people, why? Thought provoking, humorous, enlightening, and a pleasure to read.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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      Australia,
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      Limelight Publishing ,
      2020 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 90p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 31 August 2020.
      ISBN: 9781716664915
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