Live Verse: A Tilted View of Humanity's Disorderly Conduct, by Ellen Griffith
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LIVE VERSE is fast-moving underdog poetry that has its own view of humanity's disorderly conduct as it deals with love and politics, music and baseball, hard times and corporate greed. Live Verse is conversational, down-to-earth poetry with a bemused view of the world from the bottom looking up. It reflects the author's life as an often-out-of work traveling musician whose resume of odd jobs is way past colorful. For music lovers the bonus is a first-hand account of the boisterous journey of American popular music from ragtime to rap. Live Verse comes from America's bars, ballparks and truck stops. From a country music bar in Anchorage, Alaska and from a jazz joint on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans. It comes from an all-night diner in Bakersfield where the juke box is playing Merle Haggard's "The Bottle Let Me Down." It comes from Dodger Stadium on the day that every baseball player wears number 42 to honor Jackie Robinson. It comes from a bus depot in Cincinnati where a mute TV shows President Obama speaking in front of the presidential seal and two American flags while a few distracted travelers sit staring at the screen and wonder if any of it matters. It comes from every union hall that celebrates the American wage slave who creates our prosperity but is still fighting for a fair share of it. It comes from the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C., where some noisy demonstrators brave snow flurries to wave signs declaring that capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class and that Wall Street is a high crime area. At the same time, on the floor of the Senate, a senator from an oil patch state shows off a snow ball and declares global warming to be a hoax. A keen observer of political absurdities, the author claims that "politics has gone from bad to verse" and goes on to prove it. For the reader who is trying to make sense of mankind's twenty-first century mess and doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, LIVE VERSE is here to help.
Live Verse: A Tilted View of Humanity's Disorderly Conduct, by Ellen Griffith- Amazon Sales Rank: #4638982 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .40" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 134 pages
About the Author Ellen Griffith started at the bottom playing guitar in a skid row bar and ended up at the bottom as a starving songwriter. And much of what happened in between can be found in this collection of LIVE VERSE and Leftover Prose. She blew off higher education to follow her heart as an often-out-of-work traveling musician. Lack of full employment in her chosen field led to a colorful resume of incidental jobs. She discovered that "blue collar" actually means dirty-boots jobs, rubber-gloves jobs, mop-and-broom jobs and a lot worse. She worked as a car hop, dog washer, cab driver, ranch hand and warehouse clerk, to name a few, before she finally learned to type so she could sit down. Typing led to a graphic artist job, and when a musician friend became entertainment editor at the Santa Monica Outlook, she moonlighted for ten years covering the music beat for the Outlook. In 2005 she produced an album, Songwriters Choice, containing 17 original songs with a hand-picked studio band known as the Demonstrators. She fell in love with rhymed verse as a child (don't we all?) but in high school literature class, she learned that serious poetry doesn't rhyme anymore, and it seemed to be intentionally abstract and intimidating. And what's worse, it was a homework assignment. She remembers that it took an emergency trip to the library to reassure her that much glorious rhymed verse exists from an earlier time when poetry was widely popular and a lot more fun. LIVE VERSE won't bring back the 1870's, but it won't be a homework assignment, either.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I recommend “Live Verse” not only for its brilliant insights By G. D. Pincus Ellen Griffith’s “Live Verse” is a remarkably American collection of poetry and prose about blues, jazz, and rock ‘n roll; baseball, trains, and cowboys; families, government, and business. Whether singing the praises of Eubie Blake, Carl Perkins, New Orleans, or the Los Angeles Dodgers; telling charming stories of her childhood and of raising her own children; or mercilessly skewering atavistic politicians, insatiable corporations, or today's celebration of ignorance over knowledge, Ms. Griffith consistently delivers her messages with compassion, humor, and pinpoint accuracy. I recommend “Live Verse” not only for its brilliant insights, but for its comprehensive view of American life over the past half century.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A must book for every woman to read. By Amazon Customer A wonderfully fascinating and well written book which makes you feel at home in Ms. Griffiths living room speaking with her abouther most interesting and unique life and the many experiences she went through, and the lessons she learned.A poetic journey of an artist, mother, wife,. A pioneer for her time, and for all times. The book moves along in harmonic fashion,and once you join the iambic pentameter of her literary style, you too will laugh at the wonderful life she led. An inspirationfor all women, young and old, who follow their hearts on their journey through life.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Poetry for America By Robert Ashley There is wit, there is humor and there is righteous indignation. In a folk artist's manner, Ellen Griffith has combined these into a poetry covering topics like class inequality, war, media coverage and baseball. The manner is a mixture of Will Rogers and Pete Seeger. The poems show both a love for America and the love to criticize the inequities and the vices within our great country. A wonderful read.
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