Jelly Roll A Blues

Name: Jelly Roll A Blues
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ISBN: 9780375709890

ISBN-10: 0375709894

ISBN-13: 9780375709890

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kevin Young

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In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.18" wide x 7.91" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English