PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
With an astoundingly unique structure of line length and rhyme, Dave Oliphant has incorporated and turned into poetry a vast and impressive knowledge of jazz. The text and its deeply researched factual information and at times nearly Shakespearean and Spenserian richness of language will long provide and provoke both pleasure and scholarship. --David Ray, author of Music of Time: Selected and New Poems Oliphant's decision to arrange his biography into rhymed quatrains proves fitting: the form mirrors the content...Although Oliphant's vision of Kenny Dorham offers some informative knowledge about the musician's life, career, and social circle, the greater achievement here lies in Oliphant's spiraling musical lines, in his creative rhythms and rhymes, and in his deep understanding of poetic language. --Jason Coates, Texas Books in Review
