Download or read book Stepping Through the Narrow Gate written by Barry Vennard and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally Free, the autobiography and compilation of poetry, is about a young black girl growing up in the south, whose life was filled with the pain of watching the two people she loved most struggle to support a family of fifteen on a cotton picker's wages. After becoming an adult, she moves away from home. The hardship and pain resurface, powerfully, so she hides herself in her poetry.