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Occasionally light in heart, dark in spirit, other times bitter and at all times the prose describes life, October 24, 2007
This collection of poetry is occasionally light in heart, dark in spirit, other times bitter and at all times the prose describes life. An example of the bitter and dark in spirit is "A Good Woman Feeling Bad"
"The blues may be the life you've led
Or midnight hours in
An empty bed. But persecuting
Blues I've known
Could stalk
Like tigers, break like bone,
Pend like rope in
A gallows tree,
Make me curse
My pedigree,
Bitterness thick on
A rankling tongue,
A psalm to love that's
Left unsung,
Rivers heading north
But ending South,
Funeral music
In a going-home mouth
All riddles are blues,
And all blues are sad,
And I'm only mentioning
Some blues I've had."
This poem is typical of what appears in the book as it easily conjures of imagery of the situation and if you know the history of the black experience in America, then the imagery and references are even stronger.
I enjoyed this book, reading some of the poems twice and getting deeper messages as I read them the second time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Occasionally light in heart, dark in spirit, other times bitter and at all times the prose describes life, October 24, 2007
This collection of poetry is occasionally light in heart, dark in spirit, other times bitter and at all times the prose describes life. An example of the bitter and dark in spirit is "A Good Woman Feeling Bad"
"The blues may be the life you've led
Or midnight hours in
An empty bed. But persecuting
Blues I've known
Could stalk
Like tigers, break like bone,
Pend like rope in
A gallows tree,
Make me curse
My pedigree,
Bitterness thick on
A rankling tongue,
A psalm to love that's
Left unsung,
Rivers heading north
But ending South,
Funeral music
In a going-home mouth
All riddles are blues,
And all blues are sad,
And I'm only mentioning
Some blues I've had."
This poem is typical of what appears in the book as it easily conjures of imagery of the situation and if you know the history of the black experience in America, then the imagery and references are even stronger.
I enjoyed this book, reading some of the poems twice and getting deeper messages as I read them the second time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Occasionally light in heart, dark in spirit, other times bitter and at all times the prose describes life, October 24, 2007
This review is from: Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (Hardcover)
This collection of poetry is occasionally light in heart, dark in spirit, other times bitter and at all times the prose describes life. An example of the bitter and dark in spirit is "A Good Woman Feeling Bad"
"The blues may be the life you've led
Or midnight hours in
An empty bed. But persecuting
Blues I've known
Could stalk
Like tigers, break like bone,
Pend like rope in
A gallows tree,
Make me curse
My pedigree,
Bitterness thick on
A rankling tongue,
A psalm to love that's
Left unsung,
Rivers heading north
But ending South,
Funeral music
In a going-home mouth
All riddles are blues,
And all blues are sad,
And I'm only mentioning
Some blues I've had."
This poem is typical of what appears in the book as it easily conjures of imagery of the situation and if you know the history of the black experience in America, then the imagery and references are even stronger.
I enjoyed this book, reading some of the poems twice and getting deeper messages as I read them the second time.
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