Buddhaheads and Abercrombie

As in Stripe City, famed poet, artist and author LG Williams (Buddhaheads and Abercrombie) casts a keen eye inward and bares his 6-pak in a slim volume of personal poetry. This collection is narrower in scope than LG’s earlier books and the sense of artistic pride is stronger, more compelling. But all of his opinions are deeply rooted and most are conveyed with a combination of humility, personable intelligence and wit. Like a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde, LG offers insights on a wide range of topics: Africa, youth, virility, self-reflection, independence and the importance of understanding both the historical truth of the aesthetic experience and the art that truth inspires. Women are a recurrent topic, and in “A Bong Brings Sensuality,” he writes of the revelations the young (his younger self included) have of getting high. “They Came to Come” is a particularly inspirational piece paying homage to hot topics.

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