Esau Lanier: A Sea Island Prince

by Nick Lindsay

This book tells Esau's life on Edisto Island, S.C. Our lives were intertwined - man & boss, 1956 until his death in 1964. Question: because we worked for gladness rather than money, are we superfluous? For here this morning comes a busybody little wren who shouts out, "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, 1799-1837, wrote his celebrated book, Eugene Onegin using hundreds of sonnets. In it he told the story of two superfluous dandies: himself, Alexander, and this Eugene in their intertwined uselessness. Pushkin is never thought of as Afro-Russian, but here in the U, S. he would have been forced to sit in the back of the bus just like Esau, since his great grandfather was a dark-skinned Ethiopian. Useful then to assemble Esau Lanier out of more than 200 sonnets using the same form Pushkin used for EUGENE ONEGIN.The Smithsonian has come now and taken apart Esau's house stick by stick, peg by peg and carried it off to Washington, D. C. Though Esau and I may be superfluous flesh, blood, & bone, yet this live oak house pegged together with locust pegs & hand-made brick will stand as a monument to the mercy, tolerance, & praise the people of Edisto have exhibited over the centuries in dealing with one another.Sometimes the wren proclaims, "Teacher! Teacher! Teacher!"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508986053
• ISBN13: 9781508986058
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.6" x 5.0"