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Steve Davenport's Bruise Songs is aggressive--21st century blues, a rap for the times, a hymn for the hurts we bear and for which we recover. As the poet invokes in "Dear Horse I Rode In On," his poetryis the curl of rindthe lick of salt the shavedbarkings of all these linesor limes I cut and squeezefor bruise songs, my cowboybrag. Rhyme is everythingin song. You done me wrong.He leads us to muddy waters where he asks us to sing his "two-chord, carp killin' river song," or gives us access to love letters to cerebral angiograms: "I find the clot you leave under the bruise. I ask that you open lines of time." It takes a life to sing blues so hauntingly.
- Author:
- Steve Davenport
- Publisher:
- Stephen F. Austin University Press
- Publication Date:
- March 17, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 80 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1622883020
- ISBN-13:
- 9781622883028