W., who gave his students "the Sixties / minus Malcolm X, or Watts, / barely a march on Washington"-to "Money Road," a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's lynching, the poems engage place and the past and their intertwined power. sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.” - The New York Timesĭivided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times.įrom "History"-a song of Kansas high-school fixture Mr. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.
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