When a young girl sees a young bird, she starts to get a strange feeling. And though she thinks she cannot fly, her mother tells her there is a way. As this young girl is like her Granny Liza, who would not stay rooted to the ground and would “slip the bonds of earth” and continue the journey of  their ancestors. Poetic prose accompanies a two part story in We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens. The first is the surface story of literally flying from […]