Steve Davenport\'s Bruise Songs is aggressive--21st century blues, a rap for the times, a hymn for the hurts we bear and for which we recover.
He leads us to muddy waters where he asks us to sin.
You done me wrong.
Rhyme is everything in song.
As the poet invokes in "Dear Horse I Rode In On," his poetry is the curl of rind the lick of salt the shaved barkings of all these lines or limes I cut and squeeze for Bruise songs, my cowboy brag.
Steve Davenport\'s Bruise Songs is aggressive--21st century blues, a rap for the times, a hymn for the hurts we bear and for which we recover