Ragged Footsteps, Brushed Drums

About the Book

This is the seventh volume of poems in which Ernest Yates records his impressions of Philadelphia, his home town. In this volume Yates makes poems not only out of Philadelphia’s street scenes, but also out of the sounds of those streets and the moods they evoke. Understood in all the commotion, indeed part of its cacophony, are the sounds our own footsteps make as we zigzag through city streets.

About the Author

Ernest Yates has lived in the Philadelphia area for over forty years. He initially records his wanderings through Philadelphia streets in photographs and audiotapes, then transposes those recordings into poems that attempt to capture the wildness and mystery of the city’s streets. Mr. Yates has published six previous books of poems. He is a winner of the Grand Prize of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, among other poetry awards