# Song for Anninho

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- Book: [Song for Anninho](https://www.bookquiver.com/gayl-jones/song-for-anninho) ([Song for Anninho.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gayl-jones/song-for-anninho.md))
- Authors: [Gayl Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/gayl-jones)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0706-855-7
- Pages: 136
- Published: 2000-04-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This exquisite book-length poem is set in colonial Brazil, following the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid the flight and reenslavement of...