Publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Clarion Books, 86 p.
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I'd like to hear what others thought of this work. The poetry style didn't work so well for me. It's also possible that I don't have the necessary background knowledge of blues.
I thought that the visual elements of the poetry ("Cracks: some sharp break sound some pop ping w o o d s t a c c a t o into the air.") did much to mirror the rhythm patterns of the blues. My favorite poems were "Sometimes" (p. 40) -- fairly universal thoughts about parenthood that I probably identify with more than a child will; and "Take A Single Black Pencil" (p. 82) -- part of a trio of poems that ends with "Now mix these colors for our songs."
I also liked the unusual treatment of the oft-told path of the African Americans who lived the lives that produced the blues.
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