Bill Traylor (American Folk Art Museum) Penguin New York–based poet Miles Champion

New York–based poet Miles Champion

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between science and storytelling

Its “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive

Bill Traylor (American Folk Art Museum) Penguin New York–based poet Miles ChampionBill Traylor, art book by Valrie Rousseau and Debra Purden ISBN 9788874398218 Discounted copies but like new 192 page hardcover (illustrated throughout), 9 x 11 inches, published by 5Continents *** Born into slavery around 1853 4 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Alabama, Traylor has become one of the most important self taught artists of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the most celebrated African American artists, along with Thorton Dial