Rise

Rating:
Summary: typical
Review: Jordan joins the clan of blues bandwagoners as member emeritus. These poems are just plain, throwbacks from the (great and sufficient) protest poetry of the past. ...dispense with this treatise.

Rating:
Summary: The Real Deal
Review: this book is rooted in blues and jazz. jordan has a good ear for down home speech and an excellent eye for observation and history. in the poem " overcoat, " he tells a poiganat tale about police harassment in a shopping mall in white suburban ohio. " kind of blue " tells about an ex-lover, the music of miles davis and of drug addiction. the poems about john henry and robert johnson definately qualify as black folklore and they are a pleasure to read. the poem voodoo which a fellow poet disses a poem jordan wrote about a woman they were both involved with is funny. tia chuca press always puts out good work

Rating:
Summary: typical
Review: this book is rooted in blues and jazz. jordan has a good ear for down home speech and an excellent eye for observation and history. in the poem " overcoat, " he tells a poiganat tale about police harassment in a shopping mall in white suburban ohio. " kind of blue " tells about an ex-lover, the music of miles davis and of drug addiction. the poems about john henry and robert johnson definately qualify as black folklore and they are a pleasure to read. the poem voodoo which a fellow poet disses a poem jordan wrote about a woman they were both involved with is funny. tia chuca press always puts out good work