I've read Leadbelly and taught it in my graduate seminar last year. (Our focus was poetry, pop culture, and flash forms.) It's an excellent book-length sequence and especially fun if you have an interest in American music history, origins of folk/blues, etc. There's lots of stylistic variety: dramatic monologues, prose poems/micro-fictions (depending on your viewpoint), some documentary language/source material, more. I recommend it to anyone with wide tastes & an interest in reading a book that includes some excellent poems and provocative writing in the boundaries between poems & other forms or genres.
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