epigraph

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Jenny Jackson means onetime Brooklyn Heights resident Truman Capote no disrespect, and his quote “I live in Brooklyn. By choice” serves as an epigraph to “Pineapple Street,” her first novel.

From New York Times

She appears more obliquely in the final version, in an epigraph taken from her poem “Funeral” that pays tribute both to the poet and to a genre she called “podsluchańce,” or “eavesdroppings.”

From Washington Post

Rarely has there been an epigraph as well matched to a narrative as the one at the front of “Somebody’s Daughter,” Ashley C. Ford’s memoir of a childhood framed by her father’s incarceration.

From New York Times

For the epigraph of her poetry collection, Dr. Farr selected a verse from her beloved poet:

From Washington Post

The novel’s epigraph — “Black history is Black horror,” a quote from L.A.-based Black author Tananarive Due — suggests there’s something more sinister afoot.

From Los Angeles Times