ISBN: 0-88739-342-X
80 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 6/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $15.00
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Party Crashers of Paradise, The
A Donald S. Ellis Book
Reginald Lockett
Verse that opens windows into the world a rich in cultural and historical texture as solid as the concrete beneath the readers' feet as they absorb the sights, sounds, and smells, of communities where people breathe, dream, and love. These poems embrace special moments frozen in time, yet elastic in their fluidity.
Review: "These poems from Reginald Lockett's American-colored landscape accentuate the inner spirit the way other artists merely celebrate the Inner City. Even when reflecting, ruminating, lyricizing, scatting or rhapsodizing, Lockett cuts straight to the chase. His boppish, bluesy lines do not stop until the story or song he happens to be delivering jumps right into your heart...[he] has created a crusty yet tender poetry that tick-tocks between staying cool and getting involved, very involved."
-Al Young, poet
"Lockett makes room for living and the dead, the music makers and the food bakes with batches of jazz and black eyed peas. The poetry makes a fine stew, a bowl of truth. It is to be supped with delight and digested with knowledge."
-Elmaz Abinader, author of Children of the Roojme, A Family's Journey From Lebanon; In the Country of My Dreams...; Country of Origin
"Lockett's The Party Crashers of Paradise is a down home blessing. A West Oaktown soul slappin', finger poppin', loud laughin', cranked up R & B, doowop poetry bash for the connoisseur of good fun, good lovin', good soul food and funky livin'."
-Genny Lim, poet
Bio: REGINALD LOCKETT is the author of Where the Birds Sing Bass, which won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 1996.
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