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Blues Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series),Used
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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 anthologythe first devoted exclusively to blues poemsa 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 bluesinfluenced and bluesinflected 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 lyricspoems in their own rightfrom 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 hardbitten hope.
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