false 2291758 1 <p>This moving collection of prose poems about seventies soul singer Donny Hathaway presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life.</p> <p>Among mainstream audiences Hathaway is perhaps best known either as the syrupy voice singing with Roberta Flack in "Where Is the Love" or for his shocking death--he was found dead beneath the open thirteenth-story window of his New York hotel room in 1979 at the age of thirty-three. Less well known are the depth of his classical and gospel training, his wide-ranging intellectual interests, and the respect his musical knowledge, talent, and versatility commanded from collaborators like Curtis Mayfield and Aretha Franklin. Meanwhile, among listeners with special affinity for soul music of the 1970s, even almost thirty years after his death, no voice burns with the intensity of Hathaway's own in the great solo ballads and freedom songs such as "A Song for You," "Giving Up," "Someday We'll All Be Free," and "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black."</p> <p><i>Winners Have Yet to Be Announced</i> pushes poetry toward the rich characterization and depth of a novel. Yet it is the capacity of poetic language that allows the book to examine Donny Hathaway's vivid and remarkable life without attempting to resolve the mysteries within which he lived and created and sang.</p> 2298064 1 3 2008 Winners Have Yet to Be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway total:7|5:3|4:3|2:1| 7 29 21 3 2 0 false false Mon Jul 13 08:42:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 08:43:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 10:28:45 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 10:32:52 -0800 2008 Winners Have Yet To Be Announced is an impressive and impressing meditations not only on Donny Hathaway but as well on music, listening, and the distorting power of creative insight, much more satisfying and challenging and...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 12 13:50:01 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 05:50:33 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Oct 07 15:19:25 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 15:19:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 03 08:41:15 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:41:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 24 14:37:59 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 14:37:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 21:53:51 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 23:23:30 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 21:53:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 05 07:06:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 07:06:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 02 16:30:08 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 16:30:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 13 10:25:30 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 10:25:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 25 20:42:42 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 20:42:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 06 15:55:28 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 26 15:26:45 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 15:55:28 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu May 29 05:40:11 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 05:40:11 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon May 26 10:21:09 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 10:31:30 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 12:27:19 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 12:27:28 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Apr 16 12:43:47 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 14:23:32 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Apr 14 13:48:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 13:48:12 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Apr 13 11:07:05 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 11:07:13 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Apr 13 10:31:52 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 10:32:05 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Mar 04 08:04:22 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 08:04:22 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2291758