Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners

by Ed Pavlic

ISBN: 9780823276837

Published: 2017-04-03

Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet's skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin's passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance.