Dear John, Dear Coltrane

"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 hummingwith emotion and ennobled by a deeply felt human dignity."-- Virginia Quarterly Review". . . one of the finest poets of our time."-- San Francisco Examiner & 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.