Blues Poems

Name: Blues Poems
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ISBN: 9780375414589

ISBN-10: 0375414584

ISBN-13: 9780375414589

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kevin Young

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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 has 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,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/2/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 4.42" wide x 6.49" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword


Standards (Blues Poems before World War II)


Langston Hughes


The Weary Blues


Langston Hughes


Morning After


Langston Hughes


Beale Street Love


Langston Hughes


Song for a Dark Girl


Langston Hughes


Midwinter Blues


Langston Hughes


Too Blue


Langston Hughes


Note on Commercial Theatre 26


Fenton Johnson


Tired


Claude Mckay


The Harlem Dancer


Nancy Cunard


Memory Blues


Countee Cullen


Colored Blues Singer


Sterling Brown


Ma Rainey


Sterling Brown


Choices


Nicolï¿½s Guillï¿½n


High Brown


Melvin B. Tolson


Sootie Joe


Maxwell Bodenheim


Street-level Jazz


W. H. Auden


Blues


W. H. Auden


Funeral Blues


Muriel Rukeyser


George Robinson: Blues


Leopold Senghor


Ndï¿½ssï¿½, or“Blues”


Owen Dodson


Guitar


Charles Edward Smith


Blues Stanzas


Richard Wright and Langston Hughes


Red Clay Blues


Richard Wright


The FB Eye Blues


Vincent Mchugh


Dicty Blues


Waring Cuney


Down-home Boy


Waring Cuney


Carry Me Back


Waring Cuney


Let Me Tell You Blues Singers Something


Gwendolyn Brooks


Queen of the Blues


Some Songs W. C. Handy St


Louis Blues


Mamie Smith


Crazy Blues


MA Rainey


See See Rider Blues


Bessie Smith


Empty Bed Blues


Bessie Smith


Backwater Blues


Bessie Smith


Gimme a Pigfoot


IDA Cox


Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues


Richard M. Jones


Trouble in Mind


Blind Willie Johnson


Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed


Son House


Death Letter Blues


Robert Johnson


Kindhearted Woman Blues


Robert Johnson


Hellhound on My Trail


Robert Johnson


Love in Vain


Jimmy Rushing


Sent for You Yesterday


Leadbelly


Good Morning Blues


Muddy Waters


Hoochie Coochie Man


Big Mama Thornton


Hound Dog


Form Jayne Cortez


You Know


Amiri Baraka


Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today


Sonia Sanchez


Blues


Sonia Sanchez


Blues Haikus


Sonia Sanchez


Set No. 2


Nikki Giovanni


Master Charge Blues


Margaret Walker


Inflation Blues


Quincy Troupe


Woke Up Crying the Blues


Elizabeth Alexander


Letter: Blues


A. Van Jordan


Cheating Woman Blues Haiku


Etheridge Knight


Feeling Fucked/Up


Facing off James C. Morris


The Blues


Kenneth Rexroth


Married Blues


Kenneth Patchen


Lonesome Boy Blues


Henry Dumas


Concentration Camp Blues


Henry Dumas


Outer Space Blues


Derek Walcott


Blues


Sherman Alexie


Reservation Blues


Gustavo Pï¿½rez Firmat


Bilingual Blues


Marilyn Chin


Blues on Yellow


Carl Phillips


Blue


Gayl Jones


Deep Song


Calvin Forbes


Soledad


Calvin Forbes


Some Pieces


Darrell Burton


Broom Song


Allen Ginsberg


Sickness Blues


Sandra Mcpherson


Bad Mother Blues


Afaa M. Weaver


Rambling


June Jordan


Uncle Bull-boy


Tracie Morris


Get Away 1928


Sean Hill


Joe Chappel’s Foot Log Bottom Blues 1952


Alan Dugan


Swing Shift Blues


Billy Collins


The Blues


Figures Sherley Anne Williams


Any Woman’s Blues


Cornelius Eady


I’m a Fool to Love You


Cornelius Eady


Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues


Cornelius Eady


Leadbelly


Kevin Young


Langston Hughes


Willie Perdomo


Song for Langston


Sterling Plumpp


Muddy Waters


Honorï¿½e Fanonne Jeffers


Big Mama Thornton


Charles Wright


Poem Almost Wholly in My Own Manner


John Berryman


Dream Song [no. 40]


David Wojahn


John Berryman Listening to Robert Johnson’s


King of the Delta Blues, January 1972


Forrest Hamer


Arrival


David Rivard


Not Guilty


Alfred Encarnacion


Bulosan Listens to a Recording of Robert Johnson


Freight Al Young


The Blues Don’t Change


G. E. Patterson


Cinderella


Yusef Komunyakaa


Annabelle


Yusef Komunyakaa


For You, Sweetheart, I’ll Sell Plutonium Reactors


Yusef Komunyakaa


Woman, I Got the Blues


Catherine Bowman


Hard-Luck Resume