As the drum stands at the crossroads of traditional African and Afro-American culture, so the poet should stand at the center of the drum... And poetry is music's twin. Both the metaphysical and the metaphorical word stem from and return to the drum: life, love, birth, and death labored out in measured rumble or anxious cacophony.


Drumvoices (1976)

Eugene B. Redmond Quotes

As the drum stands at the crossroads of traditional African and Afro-American culture, so the poet should stand at the center of the drum... And...

As the drum stands at the crossroads of traditional African and Afro-American culture, so the poet should stand at the center of the drum... And...

As the drum stands at the crossroads of traditional African and Afro-American culture, so the poet should stand at the center of the drum... And...

As the drum stands at the crossroads of traditional African and Afro-American culture, so the poet should stand at the center of the drum... And...