Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and MeditationsAmistad Paperback OriginalThe 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 divine. 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 write. Poetry became my way of communication, my way of