by: Tyehimba Jess
Website: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/tyehimba-jess
Description:
A biography in poems, leadbelly examines the life and times of the legendary blues musician from a variety of intimate perspectives and using a range of innovative poetic forms. A collage of song, culture, and circumstance, alive and speaking.
"Be careful; you hold in your hands a world. I suspect this book, about one man's journey through the blues, is as close as a book of poetry may get to describing what it means and what it costs to have this music in your veins.
Rating: TBD, still reading
Review: TBD, still reading
Website: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/tyehimba-jess
Description:
A biography in poems, leadbelly examines the life and times of the legendary blues musician from a variety of intimate perspectives and using a range of innovative poetic forms. A collage of song, culture, and circumstance, alive and speaking.
"Be careful; you hold in your hands a world. I suspect this book, about one man's journey through the blues, is as close as a book of poetry may get to describing what it means and what it costs to have this music in your veins.
Rating: TBD, still reading
Review: TBD, still reading
