Table of Contents
Gratitude Grace • Nothing • Eddie Son House’s Death Letter Blues • Nobody’s Business • The Supremes • Young Elvis • Car Alarm • Leadbelly • William Carlos Williams • Insomnia • Fun • Alabama, c. 1963: A Ballad by John Coltrane • Song • Thelonius Monk • Muddy Waters & The Chicago Blues • The Solos, Sarah Lawrence College • Hank Mobley’s The Grin • Sherbet • The Wrong Street • False Arrest • Spic • Why Do So Few Blacks Study Creative Writing? June 14th, 1988 • The Mouse • Thrift • Pastoral • Dental Hygiene • Living with Genius • White Socks • West 3rd Street, the First Weekend in June • Romare Bearden Retrospective at The Brooklyn Museum • Intermission on East 7th Street • The View from the Roof, Waverly Place • Blue Monday • Atomic Prayer The Sheets of Sound