Red Hot on a Silver Note
Published on 30. April 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-880684-22-1 (ISBN)
Description
Jazzy and funky-fresh, Red Hot on a Silver Note combines contemporary themes with hip-hop sensitivity and traditional beat vision. With strong rhythms, cautious optimism and ironic humor, Groves explores racism, love, prejudice, cultural pride, and family relationships. Tough or tender, her poems capture the rhythms of speech--intense and natural, clear and direct, always communicating the sense of deeply felt experience.
Reviews / Votes
"Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts." --Diane di Prima
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
St Paul, MN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
118 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-880684-22-1 (9781880684221)
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Person
Maketa Groves lives in San Francisco where she is active in the arts scene, and manages a program that assists students in Special Education within the San Francisco Unified School District.