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In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs All Of Us, author Heather McGhee offers an incredibly readable yet fully vetted narrative on how much the practice of racism costs all Americans.

Taylor’s inclusion of the natural sciences affords the reader a brief glimpse “under the hood” to the physiological workings of the human body. Citing examples from artistic mediums, such as painting, dance, and architecture, Taylor next draws the reader’s attention to benefits offered through incorporating the arts into worship, stating the arts appeal to our five senses, connect us with our emotions, and deepen our understanding through imagination and metaphor.

These poems—there are more than seventy here--are not only well-made, but are brutally honest, rich in their presentation of the natural world, and marvelously imaginative.

As grotesque and shocking as Deadpool and Wolverine might be for many people, shouldn’t the scandal of the Cross leave me more shocked, while strangely, joyfully aware of the strange mercy of the Jesus of the Gospels?

Chasing Beauty is an important contribution not only to biography, but to enlarging the narratives of American women’s lives.