Thursday October 07, 2004

Memphis on My Mind

My good friend Michael Graber will be launching his debut volume of poetry this Sunday at the Southern Festival of Books in Memphis, where he’ll read alongside Kentucky poet lauerate James Baker Hall. The book — The Last Real Medicine Show— is gorgeous and Michael’s poetry is as skronky and poignant as a Delta blues breakdown. As AE Stallings notes, “Like an old-timey fiddle, Graber’s music has a snake’s rattle in its belly.” I just ordered mine at Amazon.