Jason 'Blackbird' Selman


	The Freedom I Stole emsby Jason 'Blackbird' Selman isbn 978-0-9782474-4-7 6" x 8" 112 pages 14$ cover art and other art in book by Naledi Jackson
As your eye scans each poem’s lithe, lettered lines, an airplane touches down on a narrow landing strip. a needle slices into a jazz record’s waxen groove. suited musicians improvise on oscar peterson’s hymn to freedom. a traveler wanders through narrow, moonlit streets. freedom becomes a flight of imagination, a silver-winged melodic arc linking cities distant as Habana, Bridgetown, Montréal. These flights are recorded here, in the jazz poems and wayfaring lyrics of Jason 'Blackbird' Selman.
Jason 'Blackbird' Selman has been performing on the Montréal Arts scene as both Performance Poet and Musician for the past ten years. More recently, Selman has used these talents in the service of Montréal’s Black Theatre Workshop Youth Works theatre program. When not being brought to the verge of tears by the excellent work of these young thespians, he fulfills himself artistically as part of the musical collective Kalm Unity.

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