Use Trouble

by Michael S. Harper

Book Overview

For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles, sass and satire and surprise, Harper's poetry takes the form of psalms, jazz experiments, soft serenades, and radical provocations. In Use Trouble , his first major collection since Songlines in Michaeltree , Harper renews poetry as the art...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075986
• ISBN13: 9780252075988
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"