Jan Herman

If poetry make nothing happen, as W.H. Auden once wrote, it sometimes uncannily anticipates what will.

Sometimes he rewrote them. See an example and decide which you prefer: the early or the later version.

Colin Asher, author of the critically acclaimed biography of Nelson Algren "Never a Lovely So Real," now focuses on five emblematic figures — Huddle Ledbetter, Elmo Hope, Johnny Cash, Ike White, and Tupac Shakur — as he explores the influence of incarceration on blues artists, jazz musicians, country singers, rock'n'rollers,

Their faces are so familiar there is no need to name them.