{"product_id":"whose-really-blues-new-selected-poems-9780931552274","title":"whose really blues: new \u0026 selected poems","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAs it steps from the stage to the page, the poetry of Q.R. Hand never stops testifying. That the poet has led and continues to lead a full life in a real world crammed with real ignorance as well as actual light these trembling pages make clear. In the title poem of this exciting collection, the poet asks a question: \"how do we know the real robert johnson \/met the real devil at the real cross roads \/ just 'cause he says so and his blues intone scripture for the 21st century\". Like a Mobius strip but also like a DNA strand, Q's heaven and hell twist and stick and wrap them-selves around another: a cool but sweaty doo-wop dance pair, coupled to outlast the night. The poems in this book - as they whisk and yank and ease you through \"that certain place at \/ that certain time\" - speak directly to the body that houses heart, mind and soul. As they eyeball human cruelty, greed, delusion and color prejudice, dogma of any stripe (campus or street-triggered), poverty, social injustice, science and social philosophy, time as history and time as time, personal geography (Brook-lyn, Harlem, Oakland, San Francisco Bay), love's unchartable behavior and misbehavior - these tough, caring, wayward poems take it all and everything. Forever at play in the fields of the word, Q.R. Hand is a homegrown American original. Place this book to your ear and hear: \"All those beautiful fine \/ all those fine \/ all those who spread their love along the line \/ that stretches through heart beat and heart ache\".\u003cem\u003e-Al Young\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoet Laureate of California\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Taurean Horn Press\/Out West Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780931552274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Q. R. Hand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45038219985077,"sku":"9780931552274","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3ed22d0d-c49d-4983-9518-03e13c5d049f.jpg?v=1737475132","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/whose-really-blues-new-selected-poems-9780931552274","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}