My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits

by Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio's latest collection of poetry, My Black Angel" Blues Poems and Portraits, is an amazing work; featuring woodcuts by book artisan Charles D. Jones, My Black Angel is both an auditory pleasure and visual feast. First, Addonizio's poetry celebrates the blues tradition in poetry much the way Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar did; she understands, feels, knows blues rhythms and the result is an incomparable and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622880374
• ISBN13: 9781622880379
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 11.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary