American Songwriter :: Hard Ground

Hard Ground

Photographs by Michael O’Brien
Poems by Tom Waits
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Tom Waits and Michael O’Brien: Hard Ground
By Greg Gaston

May 2nd, 2011 at 5:00 am

In a gritty but affecting collaborative book of photographs and poetry, Michael O’Brien and Tom Waits offer up a compassionate portrait of America’s homeless. Between O’Brien’s black-and-white pictures and Waits’ boho nursery rhyme verse, this collection aches for the plight of the indigent, the disenfranchised, and the ones lost among us on our country’s mean streets.

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