Hum
By: Jamaal May
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781938584022
Subjects: American poetry; African American authors
Work titles: Poems
Description: "In May's debut collection, the human body is machine, manufactured in the motor city, alive with the urban sounds and beats. Poems buzz and purr like well-oiled chassis. Grit and trial and song thrum through each line. Tight syntax, finely tuned internal rhyme, and punchy consonants percuss each poem's beat like an unfailing 808 drum"--
Notes: Beatrice Hawley Award, 2012