Songs of Unsung People

The inhabitants of Frank Jamison's Songs of Unsung People are the people we meet every day on the streets and in the diners, some physically strong and some who get about with the help of walkers. From a preacher on a street corner to a woman on a ferry bound for Sausalito, some engaged in the everyday minutiae of life as store clerks and waitresses or, more outlandishly, a man showing off cats for a crowd gathered to watch a Key West sunset-all are caught by the poet at a telling moment in...