Poetry. African American studies. The creative impulse of Michele D. Gibbs comes from many sources: her Chicago childhood as the daughter of Communist parents, her academic training, her political development during the Civil Rights struggle, her career as a movement educator, and her natural talent in the visual arts. Gibbs' mature work reflects a lifetime of political struggle in Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Grenada, and Mexico. Her artworks mine thier African, African American, and Caribbean roots for their expression of folk culture resisting oppression. Her poetry gives voice to the dialects of her people and their neighbors around the world. This books offers her complex and beautiful gift, a fusion of word, image and spirit.