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Herman Beavers

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Description:A chapbook from the 2017 Agape Editions' Morning House series."Poet Herman Beavers is a master storyteller whose voices are gut-real. The cadence of his lines and breaks rhythm the era of the speak-easy speakers, South blown up North on a saxophone, twanged on a tender guitar. He conjures a sportin' life and a woman waiting. You enter this world and want to stay, eavesdrop quietly so you don't disturb. You won't know whether to dance or cry but somebody will say something you want to remember: It won't do nothing / but kill you / and you be mad rest / your natural-born life.Images here, reminiscence and forecast like bass and tenor, rival language in a battle-royal: must be these /shoes talking in tongues thimbles of rain shower roof dwellers / with clear signs to hat across the river It's so hot, sin rests closer / to the ground than prayer. not like momma, / with her head rags, dingy white shirts rolled /up to the elbows, always complaining / of the coldThis book is black and blues and beauty, its songs a chokesob. It will make you heart-broke. If you ain't black you'll wish you could." — Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Charles A. Dana Professor Emerita, Guilford CollegeAvailable hereWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Obsidian Blues. To get started finding Obsidian Blues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 27

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Agape Editions

Release: 2017

ISBN: 1939675529

Description: A chapbook from the 2017 Agape Editions' Morning House series."Poet Herman Beavers is a master storyteller whose voices are gut-real. The cadence of his lines and breaks rhythm the era of the speak-easy speakers, South blown up North on a saxophone, twanged on a tender guitar. He conjures a sportin' life and a woman waiting. You enter this world and want to stay, eavesdrop quietly so you don't disturb. You won't know whether to dance or cry but somebody will say something you want to remember: It won't do nothing / but kill you / and you be mad rest / your natural-born life.Images here, reminiscence and forecast like bass and tenor, rival language in a battle-royal: must be these /shoes talking in tongues thimbles of rain shower roof dwellers / with clear signs to hat across the river It's so hot, sin rests closer / to the ground than prayer. not like momma, / with her head rags, dingy white shirts rolled /up to the elbows, always complaining / of the coldThis book is black and blues and beauty, its songs a chokesob. It will make you heart-broke. If you ain't black you'll wish you could." — Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Charles A. Dana Professor Emerita, Guilford CollegeAvailable hereWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Obsidian Blues. To get started finding Obsidian Blues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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