"Song for Anninho, copyright 1988 by Gayl Jones; Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho, copyright 2022 by Gayl Jones" -- title page verso.
"Gayl Jones was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1949. She received her bachelor of arts degree in English at Connecticut College and her master of arts and doctor of arts degrees, both in creative writing, at Brown university. She has taught at Wellesley College and the University of Michigan. Her critically acclaimed books include the novels Corregidora, Eva's Man, The Healing, Mosquito, and, most recently, Palmares, in which many of the characters in these poems appear"--Page [193].
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