Without a Claim by Grace Schulman

Author:Grace Schulman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Early, he stirred to jazz LPs, to Bessie’s

murmurs he would cross an ocean for.

On trains, on foot, he taped field hollers, blues,

work songs, to cut recordings in New York;

ambushed a tenor sax cleaning a washroom;

amazed a bass who hauled bags at the train;

raised up a blind beggar moaning “Search My Soul”

on a rain-racked guitar. Found Ida Cox,

old, still in good voice, who would record

“Hard, Lord,” her bent notes filled with pain

risen in praise. What had brought him there?

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