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Obama’s Children by Earl S. Braggs This item will be released December 1, 2021. A universal quest for human dignity and acknowledgement made specific through the Black experience.
“If poetry is music, Earl Braggs is its composer. And what he composes is jazz— smoky, sensual, serpentine stanzas of jazzy poetry at its improvisational best: staccato-trumpeting lines, tempodriven voices, melodic repetitions, lowdown bluesy fragmentations of logic and sensibility… pouring into the corners of our consciousness, ragtiming us into bootyshaking highs and tenor-saxing us into deep deep downs. Such is jazz. Such is poetry. Such is jazz and poetry together. And such is this jazz-riffing collection.” —George Drew, author of Drumming Armageddon and Fancy’s Orphan
ISSUE NO. 8
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