CRITICAL ACCLAIM OF
JEWISH SOUL FOOD

The best feature I have heard this year anywhere took place at Mc Clain’s on the 27th of July. Larry Jaffe, who has influenced my political poetry over the last year or so, gave a wonderful twenty minute or so read that was wow-inspiring. His presentation was a lively, intense, well-modulated, emotional read: precise and never over-the-top, forced or phony. His work ranged from the powerfully political to uniquely personal and touched on the Holocaust, Southern bigot in the early 60’s and his New York background. Recently back from a poetry tour of five states, Jaffe is a consummate poet, reader and storyteller. He involves one in his reads by the sheer power of his imagery, voice and words; he is simply, as Tina Turner so aptly, the best overall performance poet I have encountered in 1999 in all permutations of the aforementioned elusive verb and noun. mike cluff check out tour review in poetic voices the largest poetry zine on the internet... www.poeticvoices.com