Big Auntie's Pearls (ePub)

The Choreo-novel, "Big Auntie's Pearls" is my attempt to
expand upon what's known as "Choreopoem" which is a form
of dramatic expression that combines poetry with dance
music and song. This term is believed first coined by the Great
Ntozake Shange in her usage of traditional African-American
storytelling for entertaining and for teaching. The implied
plot uses theme elements and has specific characters
to hopefully create some emotional response from the
readers or the listening audience.

My story also uses nontraditional spelling and vernacular written in Concert format with each chapter called an Opus with three different movements as found in a Sonata or the acts of an opera or in ballet. The four Opuses are infused with
Intermezzo written in three-quarters time maybe giving
those of us with short attention spans a twelve-hour story
time or one hour for a movement.

The Choreo-novel, "Big Auntie's Pearls" is my attempt to expand upon the form of dramatic expression known as "Choreopoem" which combines poetry, dance music and song with traditional African-American storytelling. My story's implied plot uses theme elements with specific characters to hopefully create an emotional response from readers also its listeners. Nontraditional spelling and vernacular are written in the Concert format with each chapter called an Opus with three different movements as found in a Sonata or acts of an Opera or Ballet. The four Opuses are infused with Intermezzo and in Three-quarters time giving those of us with short attention spans maybe a twelve-hour read or an hour for one movement.

My story is Historical "Inspirational Fiction" using pseudonyms of persons and Venerable Institutions in a respectful fictitious manner to help Annamitta (Anna-me-ta) tell her story of her Big Auntie's whispered "High Pearls of Burden."

I invite you on this journey to my native Southwest Georgia in the "Morning Star Suite" with a debut piano recital in the Southern hamlet of Boston before spanning through time with stops in Washington DC, Miami until Annamitta's "New Day" at Savannah's College by the Sea.