From the Podcast, PASSAGES: On Morrison
Every city has a pulse, a rhythm, a certain way it’s touched by light.
Continuing on tour for On Morrison, Namwali Serpell lands in sunny Oakland, California, where she reads Morrison’s striking, swinging portrait of Harlem’s jazz age with poet and writer Cathy Park Hong. At an event with the Bay Area Book Festival, Namwali and Cathy discuss slant rhymes, slanted grammars, and the slanting light Morrison wields in the passage to describe how a City stirs up beauty, violence, music, and love.
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