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Blues Poems

By Kevin Young

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Blues Poems

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Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to "Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology-the first devoted exclusively to blues poems-a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and "Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics-poems in their own right-from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.
Product details
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2003-09-02
Publication Date:
2003-09-02
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375414584
ISBN13:
9780375414589
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
234 g
Height:
113 cm
Width:
168 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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