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  Saint Billie (Paperback) By (author) Jeremy Reed

  

  

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  • Publisher: Enitharmon Press
  • Published: 28 May 2002
  • Format: Paperback 64 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Arts & Entertainment | Poetry By Individual Poets | Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781900564625 ISBN 10: 1900564629

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• Jeremy Reed's new collection centers on the great jazz singer '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 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, that brilliantly illuminate the singer's world and the heady atmosphere of the jazz age.