Radio Plays

Dos Madres Press, 2019

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These radio poems are ‘talking sonnets’ in the American grain. While they are ‘sonnets’ that echo the Italian and to a lesser extent the English versions of the form, they are more analogous to the ‘talking blues’ of John Lee Hooker, the Reverend Gary Davis, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan. The talking blues brought projective verse to the more formal and imported blues ‘ballad’ and hit a peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s America.