I Hope Its Not Over and Goodby: Selected Poems of Everette Maddox

by Everette Maddox and Ralph Adamo

Called the "Christ of New Orleans" by Andrei Codrescu, Everette Maddox was a New Orleans legend, a poet whose mythos made it hard to know who he really was. Broke and often homeless, but with a distinctive taste for style and glamour, Maddox was a character well suited for the contradictions of New Orleans life. As Ralph Adamo remarks in his introduction, "We each have out own Everette, and then we have the poems." In this collection, editor Adamo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608010007
• ISBN13: 9781608010004
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"