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On the Road with Sanora Babb: Erasing Steinbeck to Find the Ghost of My Grandmother

Sanora Babb-inspired erasure poetry on John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
As I was writing the first chapter (“Sanora Babb: Challenging a Single Story of the Dust Bowl”), I was haunted by my grandmother’s ghost.
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Once Eclipsed, Sanora Babb’s Dust Bowl Novel ‘Whose Names Are Unknown’ Demands Our Attention

Writer Sanora Babb is best known for her first novel about the Dust Bowl, Whose Names Are Unknown.
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