Curtis L. Crisler’s new collection is tapping feet to Motown, raising up those indelible tunes, Stevie Wonder’s storyline woven from the lavish lineage of soul and jazz and pop, threaded like DNA into the music of MJ and those who follow.

It was a moaning masterpiece 
       Mahalia Jackson spilled off 

her dresser. U learned to moan 
       by playing with her floral arrangements. 

U learned to moan 
       by putting her bees in Ur mouth.