Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue

This winner of the APR First Book Prize was chosen by Adrienne Rich, who praises it as "intimate and erotic work The music evoked in this book is transcendent in its reaches." This collection is rooted in jazz, blues, and soul music, and debuts a voice that is by turns vampish and whispering as it sings the supple harmonies and lush dissonances of human connections.

Author Biography: Ed Pavlic is Assistant Professor of English at Union College. His book Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African-American Modernism will also be published in 2001 by University of Minnesota Press.