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well you neednt

Well You Needn’t

Joel Lewis

Paper: ISBN 978-1-934909-80-5 $18

120 Pages

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Well You Needn’t, Joel Lewis’s seventh volume of poetry, gathers his poems about the music that has occupied him since his teenage years. The prose memoir “My Life as a Jazz Fan” weaves its way through the book as the background story to his particular obsession.

What critics say:

“Well You Needn’t is the lost document, the map instructing us in our happy shock to that healthy ghost village, a village never aware that we imagined it extinct. Horace Silver, Wayne Marsh, Archie Shepp, Bobby Timmons—each sainted agent— emerges from behind the curtain.”—Archie Rand

“There is no one writing quite like him. As if Charles Olson and Susie Timmons had a baby.”–Kim Lyons