A collection of prose poems about seventies soul singer Donny Hathaway that presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life.
Ed Pavlic is associate professor of English and director of the MFA/PhD program in creative writing at the University of Georgia. His previous books of poems are "Labors Lost Left Unfinished" and "Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue," which was selected by Adrienne Rich for the "American Poetry Review" / Honickman First Book Prize. He has also published a scholarly work, "Crossroads Modernism," on African American literary culture.