Poet Cedric L. Jones delivers his second collection.
A mixture of styles that include everything from traditional poetic forms to the influence of the Harlem Renaissance jazz poets, We Whisper, and other poems explores the maturation of an individual and a nation through the experiences and observations of a gay, Black man in America.
Excerpt
Calendar
I see my mortality
Neatly printed in blocks
Counting up to a countdown
As I stretch and crackle and think,
In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects!
(Self-published. Please contact author directly to order.)
Enter the pages of diaspora in quiet introspection. Bathe your thoughts with subtle humor; synchronize your spirit-sense with history-in-heat; fall headlong with eyes wide open into
