Blue Demin Days

In Blue Denim Days poet Robert Champ looks with affection but also a healthy dose of skepticism at the ways and mores of the generation that came of age in the 1960's. Although a few of the works here are personal, Champ undertakes to write a public poetry dealing with the events and attitudes that gave the period its particular ambience. Thus, the reader will encounter poems about rock festivals, free love, Vietnam, the 1968 Democratic Convention, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The book is an unapologetic look backward, but it is neither celebratory nor sentimental. Indeed, it offers a hard look at the era, and eschews much of what has passed as received wisdom about it.

Available through Trafford Publishing: 99 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2818; ISBN 1-4120-5010-3; US$16.00, C$19.00, EUR12.35, £9.00

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