num_pages: 88
description:        "Harper's is a poetry of classically unadorned statement, a direct,         unflinching record of a man alive in his time. When he is at his best,         in both his public and his private voice, he creates a language humming         with emotion and ennobled by a deeply felt human dignity."         -- Virginia Quarterly Review       ". . . one of the finest poets of our time."         -- San Francisco Examiner &amp; Chronicle       Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013. Author is recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008.
language: English
title: Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems
titlecomplete: Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems (Poetry from Illinois)
genres: Poetry, Music
ratings_count: 85
publisher: University of Illinois Press