Picnic on the Moon
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0965457826 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 82 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A jazz and popular vocalist, he was born in Indianapolis, lives in the Boston area and travels widely to perform and record his work.Get on Up!Can anybody else here say thatin the summer of 1967,when they were fourteen years old,their mama took them to a James Brown concert?Did you walk alongside herThrough the gates ofA minor-league ballparkOn a hot, cloudless Indiana nightWhen the moon shone like a spotlightOn the rough wooden stage?Was anybody else here sittin' beside their mamaOn those hard benchesWhen James's band, the Famous FlamesCame out to lay downA red carpet of funkAnd the announcer whipped that crowdLike a bowl of black cream'til the Godfather of Soul finally skated onstagelike a waterbug,tellin; everybody 'bout his brand-new bag?If your mama yelled like everybody else,Then let it now be told!Let everybody know howShe clapped her hands rawAs James flew back and forth across the stage,Sweat and grease from his conked-up hairPouring down the front of his ruffled shirt,Purple satin jacket ripped off and tossed aside.Let everybody know how she stomped her feetWhen he grabbed that mike like a dog grabs a bone,Fell to one knee,An
A volume for the permanent shelf!" -- Small Press Review, May-June, 1999. "Deep, wise and beautiful Charles Coe gives poetry readers many fine examples of an old, worthy craft
Charles Coe is a major American poet of our day. Charles Coe is a poet who will touch your heart in his warm human accounts of the people he has loved and his unique experience of experience. These are poems that will bring out nuances of feeling within me that I would never have expected from another person.. W. Hazard said If What He Says Is So. Reading Charles Coe's poetry, I find that I am disappointed that I am only reading it; the page seems not enough. In his verse you are confronted with the voice of someone that you would like to sit down with for a beer, discussing life, art, and whatever little things that creep about the edges of our everyday. Perhaps this is because so much of his work is so effortless, direct, and engrossing that it seems more like a wistful conversation with an old friend than the finely crafted and deeply affecting verse that it is. Throughout Picnic on the Moon Coe presents a reverence for the. Wry, observant, and wise. A Customer Coe's poems show how strawberries, barefeet, wind, barbecure or the blues can wipe out for a while the grimmer realities of modern life. In that way, even the longer poems feel like haikus: they set up a scene such as guys pulling down a slate roof or a crazy bothering you on the bus, and then wipe it out with humor or sensuous pleasure or music or an understanding that a person can change and grow. Coe's musical background gives rhythm to his poems about Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown or Charlie Mingus. And his two poems on women in the process of freeing themselves from oppressive re