These thirty-two taut poems and poetic sequences, including an oratorio based on Mississippi barkeep, activist, waiter Booker Wright that was performed at Carnegie Hall and the vibrant sonnet cycle De La Soul Is Dead, about the days when hip-hop was growing up (we were black then, not yet / African American), remind us that blackness and brownness tell an ongoing story. 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. From History-a song of Kansas high-school fixture Mr. sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed." - The New York Times Divided 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. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things brown in this powerful new collection.
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