“poignant.”
Nathaniel Mackey is a distinguished American writer.
“For Clarence Major poetry matters. He knows there is still much to see and places to go in the world.
One could compare the artistic career of Clarence Major to that of musical genius Miles Davis. Major has always been miles ahead of other African American writers.
“a funny, entertaining, lightweight highbrow novel . . .”
“. . . a pleasant surprise [tracing] disparate forms of American music to their roots in Kentucky.”
