Jeremy Reed's new collection centres on the legendary figure of the
jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-59), 'Lady Day', whose talent
propelled her from poverty in Baltimore to fame as a vocalist in
Harlem nightclubs and international celebrity through her
recordings with Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. But her life was
scarred by personal tragedy and by the drug addiction that led to
her premature death. From this dramatic material Reed creates a
highly charged series of poems and prose pieces, some spoken by
Billie herself, some by the poet as narrator, which brilliantly
illuminate the singer's world and the heady atmosphere of the jazz
age.
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