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div stylemargin0 autofloatleftpaddingright5pximg srchttpfarm2.static.flickr.com1034892960370cb51b39372m.jpg width210 height160 div William Edmondson listened to voices no one heard and saw things only visible in his minds eye. God was watching over him and relaying, in visions and in voice, what his lifes work would be. Edmondson, who was the son of freed slaves, was illiterate, but he was no stranger to hard work. He was practically a slave himself with the owner of the land he was born on, but by the time he was sixteen he felt he needed to move on to Nashville. He worked an assortment of jobs, but due to an injury he ended up working as a janitor at a womans hospital. The voices and the vision never quite left William and soon he would act on them.br br He was in his driveway when the voice came again and he claimed he knowed it was God telling him what to do. At first he was directed to make tombstones, but later he was almost divinely inspired and his work began to flourish. People began to notice, to find joy in his artwork. In 1937 DahlWolfe introduced his work to a people William would never know, but who would come to know him through his art. His exhibit at MoMa would make him the first black artist to have a solo show at that prestigious institution. William was a simple man with a grand vision and even his friends and neighbors never realized just how special he was. In this book Elizabeth Spires makes the man and his work come alive in her poetry.br br This is a phenomenal work that meshes the visual and sculptural world of William Edmondson with the poetry of Elizabeth Spires. The black and white photographs of William and his work remind me of old museum catalogs and the effect is very appealing. Spires very nicely captures the personality of a man who will, because of books like these, never drift into obscurity, but be cherished for generations to come. In the back of the book is a mini biography of William, a selected bibiography and photo credits. This is a stunning book about a man you really should get to know!keywordstone carvingkeywordbloggingtemplatestonecarving, 1, , 0, All, 0, , bloggingtemplate