Psychologies

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“A name should be a magical invocation to the muse. A name should be a self-blessing”
ERICA JONG

‘Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Words’ by Susan Wooldridge Goldsmith (Crown Publishing Group, £6.51)

IN A SCENE, son Cole, racked with raging emotions, calls out his father, Harp, for not loving him as he needs to be loved. This is fuelled by how Cole sees his father care for and affirm other young men in his work as an urban black cowboy.

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