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Blues Poems

Blues Poems

Young, Kevin

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

MusiciansPoetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0375414584
ISBN13: 9780375414589
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Sep 2 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.73 Width: 4.38 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
In this gorgeous hardcover anthology--the first devoted exclusively to blues poems--a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form of the blues and offer testimony to its lasting power. Edited by award-winning poet Kevin Young.

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.

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.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

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