from memory and imagination, Blues Narratives' portraits of the poet's mother and grandfather burst into language and song, shaped by Sterling Plumpp's extraordinary sense of the rhythms of speech and the poetic line, his dazzling metaphors, and his ability to turn language inside out and upside down by looking within the words and rhythms of what we commonly say without thinking. He brings something new into American poetry both technically and spiritually,…
Author: Sterling D. Plumpp · Original publisher: Tia Chucha Press (1999)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/bluesnarratives0000plum (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: bluesnarratives0000plum; no hosting rights).
