Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix

by Richard Peabody (Editor), Doug Rice, Matt Agosta

Writers in this collection of fiction and poetry have probed various phases of Jimi Hendrix's life and career as well as his impact on people real and imagined. Writers spread geographically across the US and all over England, with a few from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and France have attempted to come to grips with just what it is about the man, the myth, the music. Featuring work by: Matt Agosta, Sherman Alexie, Brian Ames, Mark Ari, Bruce Bauman, Robert Bixby, Robert Cooperman, Barbara DeCesare, Matthew Dillon, Kevin Downs, Richard Flynn, Jessica Hagedorn, Reuben Jackson, George Kalamaras, L. A. Lantz, Nathaniel Mackey, Graham Masterton, Nancy Mercado, Steve Messner, Martin Millar, Matthew L. Moffett, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Rebecca Motil, David Nicholson, James Norcliffe, Erik Orsenna, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, W.T. Pfefferle, Meredith Pond, Doug Rice, Tim Seibles, Lewis Shiner, Rozanne Gooding Silverwood, John Sinclair, Michael Spann, Chris Stevens, D. E. Steward, Darrell D. Stover, Sara-Jayne Townsend, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Michael Ventura, Walter Williams, and more.

Genres: Poetry, Fiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 2007

Reviews

[dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, so I have to admit that I have a thing in this book, and so does my friend Matt. You should read it, not for my thing, but for Matt's, and the other fiction "inspired by" Hendrix.