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Adoff, Arnold

Roots and Blues: A Celebration

86 pp. | Clarion | January, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-23554-7 $17.99
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Evoking blues music through theme and sometimes rhythm, Adoff's sixty free-verse poems, idiosyncratically punctuated and spaced, flow easily. There's not much variety to the pieces: the subject is African American life, the imagery largely rural and Southern. Dignified scenes by Christie don't illustrate the book, exactly, but they give it some welcome contrast. The lack of table of contents and index is frustrating.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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