Outlandish Blues

Name: Outlandish Blues
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ISBN: 9780819565846

ISBN-10: 0819565849

ISBN-13: 9780819565846

Edition: 2003

Authors: Honorï¿½e Fanonne Jeffers, Honorï¿½e Fanonne Jeffers

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Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers sees the blues, what she terms the "shared 'blue notes,''' as an important intersection between the secular and the divine, and between the various African American vernacular traditions, from spirituals to jazz. Part Nina Simone, part Bessie Smith, her poems are filled with a sweaty honesty, moving from the personal to the collective experience. This movement is often accomplished through the use of personae, concentrated here in a stunning series of poems on the Biblical figures of Hagar and Sarah. Whether about a contemporary…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Fast Skirt Blues


Muse, a Lady Cautioning


The Battered Blues (Four Movements)


Don't Know What Love Is


Worn Blues Refrain


Pantoum for a Black Man on a Greyhound Bus


Think of James Brown Pleading


Sarai Gives Hagar the Egyptian to Abram


Hagar's Night with Abram


Sarai Waits for the Birth of Hagar's Son


Hagar to Sarai


Sarah Overhears the Three Angels Telling Abraham God Will Destroy Sodom


The Wife of Lot Before the Fire


The Wife of Lot Has a Premonition of Her Death


The Wife of Lot Witnesses Her Husband offering Their Two Daughters to Sodom's Crowd


The Wife of Lot After the Fire


The Two Daughters of Lot After the Fire


Sarah Gives Birth to Isaac


Sarah Confronts Abraham over Hagar


Hagar in the Wilderness


The Book of Alabama: Chapter Coltrane


Five Note Range of Sorrow


Day Clean


Outlandish Blues (The Movie)


Now with the Morning


Incident at Cross Plains (The Lynching of William Luke, 1870)


Unidentified Female Student, Former Slave (Talladega College, circa 1885)


Confederate Pride Day at Bama (Tuscaloosa, 1994)


Aretha at Fame Studios


Notes