City Eclogue - ian green

"City Eclogue" by Ed Roberson.
I found this book very difficult to read and follow, there seemed to be a lot of misplaced words and sentences thrown about. Yet, also there was a lot of meaning in some of those sentences throughout the book. What I got out of this book, what I think it is about is the struggles of the African American man moving to a new city, you can tell he has moved to a new city by the way he so in-depth describes his surrounding as if seeing them for the first time. Such as "Beautifully flowering trees you'd expect" but than he goes to follow with the destruction he see's in the city, "but here come the city's trucks bumping up over the curb."
 You can also tell he is an outsiders and a minority but this line here "City of words we're not supposed to use" throughout the book he struggle with racism which I think is still quite a problem in our country whether you believe it or not, I think it is and is something that needs to be dealt with.