Though the poetic conversation is on an issue that is at times quite emotional and personal, which the poetry portrays ably, it is also a place for facts, such as Judith Stevens' discussion of figures on lynchings and populations alongside D.D.Delaney's History - describing slavery in the time of John C. Calhoun. Issues from the formation of the US, from the civil rights movements and from scant months ago all found places in the informative phase of this presentation. J. Scott Wilson, review