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Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Binding:Paperback it’s hard to fake beingThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divinethe second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press. At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was suddenly upended. I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world., she recalls. I even stopped praying, but I began to