Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues Lyrics and Other Poems

by Constance Merritt

*Finalist for Lambda Literary Award

These poems are brilliant and dangerous. The opening poem, "Invisible Woman, Dancing," is the best protest poem of the decade. The speaker attends a party full of casual, good-intentioned racists and ableists. The ending of the poem is explosive. Constance Merritt shows incredible range - erotic poems to a wayward lover; blues lyrics so rhythmic I can nearly hear the guitar; and devotional poems that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997914912
• ISBN13: 9780997914917
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Headmistress Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"