Elizabeth Spires - I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmonson and His Stone Carvings

Pros: Poems match well to Edmondson's pieces, elegant yet simple.
Cons: None.

William Edmondson [1874-1951] was a rather remarkable individual, the son of freed slaves, a person who was mostly illiterate, but one with a gift, a gift that he found late in life. He worked in the fields, on the railroad, and as a janitor and orderly ...