Wow! Wow! A fair review of this amazing book would take up more than the allowed space. Almost 600 pages of spectacular art, insightful and intelligent essays, and very high quality printing on very high quality paper. With so many probing essays (Andrew Young, Amiri Baraka, Vincent Harding, Jack Lindsey, Paul Arnett, Howard Dodson, Congressman John Lewis, Maude Wahlman, Babatunde Lawal, Roy Sieber, William Arnett, Maxwell Anderson, William Ferris, et al) and beautiful chapters on so many well known (and lesser known) artists, Souls Grown Deep will put "vernacular" art on the map, front and center. And it's about time.