Eeny Meeny Miney Mo, Time to Lynch a Negro

©2009 by Eddie Bell

This daring book is a collection of free-verse poems and short stories that elicits a tapestry of emotion as it reveals the humanity of lynching in a unique, memorable presentation. Though the subject matter is disquieting, it is handled with grace and thoughtfulness and will leave the reader moved and with a deeper understanding and appreciation of this part of the American story.

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Festival of Tears: Poems and narration by Eddie Bell

A dramatic presentation of poetry that brings together jazz and classical musicians rendering Negro spirituals and jazz improvisations that accompany Eddie’s harmonic voice and add depth to the recording.

Festival of Tears includes featured poems: “Collateral Damage: A soliloquy,” a blues poem from a desolate wife who has lost her husband to a lynching; “Aftermath of the Bad Nigger Festival: An old woman’s story,” a remembrance of an aged white woman whose father took her to a spectacle lynching as a young girl, “… Papa didn’t you think the ghost would come?”; and, “A Prayer for Reuben,” a father’s broken hearted prayer for forgiveness of the mob that lynched his son.