Red Clay Suite

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, an assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of two other books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues.

Anyone who's had the pleasure of reading Honoree Jeffers's poems knows that she's a blues poet with things to say and new ways of saying them. Red Clay Suite is her best book to date, and a triumph; she uses everyday language and she makes it sing. - Ed Ochester, editor of American Poetry Now: The Pitt Poetry Series Anthology and author of Unreconstructed: Poems New and Selected ""Honoree Jeffers leads with her ear and follows with her rigorous intellect, then adds an emotional depth and fearlessness that make her poems uniquely powerful. This brilliant third book is a thinking woman's blues that continues to challenge, delight, and terrify."" - Elizabeth Alexander, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated American Sublime