Things I Must Have Known: Poetry

An exuberant, generous collection touching on creativity and fatherhood, racism and workplace politics, A.B. Spellman's poems address the most important personal and public events of the last seventy years-of how it felt to grow up Black in a segregated America, of the transformational experience of hearing live jazz, of the give-and-take of a long marriage, and of the importance and inspiration of good friends.