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Odie Hawkins is the African-American Jean Genet. He marches to a different tune— and "tune" is the right word because his prose has a musical quality about it. Sometimes the music, is celebrating, such as his "Portrait of Simone", but it can also plumb the blue depths, when he writes about growing up "the poorest of the poor" in Chicago...in the book "Scars and Memories"... Hence, the fitting moniker, The UnderGround Master... |
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