Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere |
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| Author:
| Cortez, Jayne |
| Series title: | High Risk Bks. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-85242-422-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 1997 |
| Publisher: | Serpent's Tail Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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In this new collection, Jayne Cortez finds her voice and uses it to wonderful effect. As the great musicians know, The Blues is a state of mind and in New York, Bahia, Pernambuco, Santiago de Cuba, or Guadalajara, Jayne Cortez's Blues speak of a poet who knows where she is coming from and where she is going - an exact sense of place. Jayne Cortez's pantheon - Nicolas Guillen, Babs Gonzales, Aime Cesaire, Ana Mendieta, Big Mama Thornton, Rosita Morales, Miles Davis - is a pantheon of...
More DescriptionIn this new collection, Jayne Cortez finds her voice and uses it to wonderful effect. As the great musicians know, The Blues is a state of mind and in New York, Bahia, Pernambuco, Santiago de Cuba, or Guadalajara, Jayne Cortez's Blues speak of a poet who knows where she is coming from and where she is going - an exact sense of place. Jayne Cortez's pantheon - Nicolas Guillen, Babs Gonzales, Aime Cesaire, Ana Mendieta, Big Mama Thornton, Rosita Morales, Miles Davis - is a pantheon of music and struggle. In Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere, Jayne Cortez has found riffs to respond to the epic demands of her muse.