Red Hot on a Silver Note

by Maketa Groves

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880684225
• ISBN13: 9781880684221
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Curbstone Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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"Groves' poetry is visually appealing; it is direct, and the images are clear. Her writing depicts pleasure and challenge, an honest confrontation with experience." --MultiCultural Review"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

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mullets r good mullets r bad but some mullets make me sad sad sad. like this mullet today it was one outta sorts u see, this was a bozullet one of the first. it made me so happy but yet so sad becuz i didnt have a camera to capture the lad. and he had his own way of speaking. somehting that sounded like it would come from a bozullet mouth and then he left just walked away never returned but yet the bozullet haunts me to this very day!!