It should not be so hard to write both poetry and fiction. Both arts, after all, make use of the same materials, words and punctuation. Poems...
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Moving insightful essays: deeply personal with universal appeal and understanding, adding badly needed intelligent and meaningful written content to our human discourse
This is a deeply felt, evocative and partly imagined tale of the life of an actual extraordinary man: the first black Broadway star performer and the highest paid entertainer of his time, black or white. It is simply told and full of complex, rich subtlety, tragedy and triumph, an American story of an outsider who achieves enormous success as a stage star, yet remains marginalized and victimized by the virulent racism of his time. The writing contains no pathos or false sentiment, only affective truth, effectively expressed.
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This is a deeply felt, evocative and partly imagined tale of the life of an actual extraordinary man: the first black Broadway star performer and the highest paid entertainer of his time, black or white. It is simply told and full of complex, rich subtlety, tragedy and triumph, an American story of an outsider who achieves enormous success as a stage star, yet remains marginalized and victimized by the virulent racism of his time. The writing contains no pathos or false sentiment, only affective truth, effectively expressed.(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)