Poetry. African American Studies. "The poems gathered in ON THE FLYLEAF reprise the individual books which Herb Martin gathers in his arms at bedtime. Filling the initial 'page left empty,' these well-distilled, historical, and personal meditations and their anecdotal responses map Martin's reading, expand his dignified grasp of an often grave world, and quietly reprise the muted echoes and salvage of memory, affirming the poets and writers who nightly compose his dreams."--Joel Lipman
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Poetry. African American Studies. "The poems gathered in ON THE FLYLEAF reprise the individual books which Herb Martin gathers in his arms at bedtime. Filling the initial 'page left empty,' these well-distilled, historical, and personal meditations and their anecdotal responses map Martin's reading, expand his dignified grasp of an often grave world, and quietly reprise the muted echoes and salvage of memory, affirming the poets and writers who nightly compose his dreams."--Joel Lipman
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