PRAISE for Cream Soda Blues
"How I am enjoying taking sips and gulps from Cream Soda Blues! It tastes a little like a Shel Silverstein / e.e. cummings concoction: it slides down easy, but there is a delayed wallop."
--The Rev. Ellen Sims,
minister / literary scholar
"Somewhere between Charles Bukowski and Lewis Carroll, Nevin Compton Trammell takes the blues rhythms and scans, takes stray images, sensations and emotions and crafts a free scat kind of rhyme that brings to mind Langston Hughes. Working in essences, distilling moments and details into the nucleus of what mattered, Cream Soda Blues offers up the way it looks and feels with no fat, no extra, no embellishment. But in that to the bone, unblinking framework, there is truth in both the honor and the conflict of the human condition. Refreshing in its directness, comforting in its clarity and evocation, healing in the mirror it holds up to our souls."
--Holly Gleason,
writer / critic
"I trust this writing. Nevin Compton Trammell is onto something in his light-hearted deep existence poetry. The language he wraps around what he sees, hears, and feels, makes me want to invite him into a moment in my own life and blanket his unique sensibilities around the experience. This poetry is so easy to enter . . . not so easy to leave behind."
--Minton Sparks,
spoken-word artist, author of "Desparate Ransom," and "Sin Sick"
"Everything in Cream Soda Blues is true. At least it's true for me--and I suspect it will be true for you. Nevin Compton Trammell has given us the gift of looking at the world with new eyes. He's rearranged the pictures of life in such a way that we see them for the first time. You will love this book."
--Joe Calloway,
author of "Becoming a Category of One" and "Work Like You're Showing Off"
"Nevin Compton Trammell's poetry speaks to my soul. It touches a place deep within that long ago I forgot existed. With humor and honesty, Cream Soda Blues rekindles my love and passion for life.
--Karla Kincannon,
author of "Creativity and Divine Surprise: Finding the Place of Your Resurrection"
"I have so few books of poetry I want to bring to this program [Nashville Public Television's "A Word on Words"]. The best way I know to let our readers know just how impressed I was, and touched by it, and hooked on it is to read some of it--I wish we could read all of it--but we only have a half-hour!"
--John Seigenthaler,
founder of First Amendment Center, publisher emeritus of The Tennessean newspaper, and host of Nashville Public Television's "A Word on Words", interview with Nevin Compton Trammell.
"His poems are short and sweet but full of substance. Each full of meaning, inspiration and heartache . . . This is a great book . . . This is a book for life . . . This is sure to make a perfect gift for anyone, even yourself.
--review in "Strickly Country"
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