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Dear John, Dear Coltrane
"Harper's is a poetry of classically unadorned statement, a direct,
        unflinching record of a man alive in his time. When he is at his best,
        in both his public and his private voice, he creates a language humming
        with emotion and ennobled by a deeply felt human dignity."
        — Virginia Quarterly Review
      ". . . one of the finest poets of our time."
        — San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
     
Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013. Author is recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008.
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane
"Harper's is a poetry of classically unadorned statement, a direct,
        unflinching record of a man alive in his time. When he is at his best,
        in both his public and his private voice, he creates a language humming
        with emotion and ennobled by a deeply felt human dignity."
        — Virginia Quarterly Review
      ". . . one of the finest poets of our time."
        — San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
     
Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013. Author is recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008.
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Overview

"Harper's is a poetry of classically unadorned statement, a direct,
        unflinching record of a man alive in his time. When he is at his best,
        in both his public and his private voice, he creates a language humming
        with emotion and ennobled by a deeply felt human dignity."
        — Virginia Quarterly Review
      ". . . one of the finest poets of our time."
        — San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
     
Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013. Author is recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252011931
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 05/01/1985
Series: Poetry from Illinois Series
Edition description: Illini books ed
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael S. Harper won the Poetry Society of America's 1978 Melville Cane Award for Images of Kin.Dear John, Dear Coltrane and  Images of Kin were nominees for the National Book Award; History Is Your Own Heartbeat won the Black Academy of Arts and Letters award for poetry. He has been cited by the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His other books include Nightmare Begins Responsibility, Chant of Saints, ed. (with Robert B. Stepto), and most recently Healing Song for the Inner Ear. He is an Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970.
 
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