Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2085694 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 100 pages

Customer Reviews

Black anger in poetic form
Blues...is a collection of short poetry & prose selections, mainly dealing with issues that personally effect the author and her blackness. It's loaded with stereotypes about non-blacks, while being heavy with hatred & condemnation about people who stereotype blacks. Hypocrisy. While some opinions are based in reality, others are just plain wrong subjective conclusions. Aside from the subject matter, the flow of the poems and prose are hit & miss. Some do have a great rhythm & flow, while others just come off as a ripoff of Rabelasian lists and Celineian thought fragments. Instead of getting this non-black reader to understand her situation & sympathize with it, I instead found myself saying "Did you ever think you have so many problems with white people because you have so much hatred and annimosity towards them?" There's definately some "pot calling the kettle black" shenannigans going on here.

WONDERFUL
Nikki does it's once again. I loved this book. I learn so much from her poetry