Shine is an African American folk character who emerged after World War I in toasts, blues, folk poetry, and children's rhymes. In his new book of poems, Calvin Forbes reinvents Shine, giving him a girlfriend, Glow, and a child, Shade. He renders the figure more melancholy and adds traces of the surreal and slapstick -- accessories "typical of the folk dibbling and dabbling as the tradition is passed along".
Author: Calvin Forbes · Original publisher: Louisiana State University Press (2001)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/shinepoems0000forb (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B2: shinepoems0000forb; author-verified in recheck; no hosting rights).
