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Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose) | 
| Author: Jericho Brown
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $11.20
You Save: $2.80 (20%)
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 77169
Media: Paperback
Edition: First
Pages: 69
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 1930974795
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781930974791
ASIN: 1930974795
Publication Date: October 20, 2008
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Please explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African American/male identity and sexuality. Just as radio favorites like Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Pink Floyd characterize loss, loneliness, addiction, and denial with their voices, these poems chorus of speakers transform moments of intimacy and humor into spontaneous music. In PLEASE, Jericho Brown sings the influence soul culture has on American life with the accuracy of the blues.
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| Customer Reviews:
a musical canon January 5, 2009
M. D. Moore (Harvey, La USA)
Can I say that I love the organization of this book? I sat down, enthralled to read, then bounced back to the Table of Contents to look for poems that I know. Noticed the musical phrasing and then bounced back to the poems. Noticed the Linear Notes and bounced back to the poems again, now informed and ready to dive into their meanings deeper. I love this collection. It has so many levels.
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