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Article: Picnic On The Moon.(Review)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2000
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Charles Coe. Picnic On The Moon. Wellfleet, MA: Leapfrog P, 1999. 79 pp. $12.95.
On June 15, 1999, the Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks. This recognition, while perhaps long overdue, is in keeping with the national attention now being directed toward Parks. Recently former Poet Laureate Rita Dove released a new collection of poems under the title of On the Bus with Rosa Parks, and historian Douglas Brinkley has started the outline for a forthcoming biography. A new book worthy of attention and featuring a wonderful poem about Rosa Parks is Charles Coe's Picnic On The Moon. Coe's poem "For Rosa Parks" begins:
It ...