Muscular Music

Name: Muscular Music
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ISBN: 9780887484384

ISBN-10: 0887484387

ISBN-13: 9780887484384

Edition: 2006

Authors: Terrance Hayes

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The poems in Terrance Hayes's book, Muscular Music, are atypical of most writers' first books of poetry. One cannot categorize these poems simply as confessional, narrative, or lyrical. They are all these things at once. They move beyond usual explorations of childhood or family to blend themes and influences that range from Neruda to Coltrane, Fat Albert to Orpheus, John Shaft to Gershwin. This book gives us an almost Whitmanesque account of an America, and an African American, replete with grace and imperfection. Moreover, it gives us a voice that does not sacrifice truth for music or music for accessibility. At the end of a poem that includes Bill Strayhorn, Andrew Carnegie, and Dante,…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



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What I am


Morning Poem


Shafro


Derrick Poem (the Lost World)


Salami


Pittsburgh


Buy One, Get One


I Want to be Fat


How You Beens


Summer





Ballad of Bullethead Yummy Suite


Blues


Blues for Shavon


From Reen


Janie Fields


Micaiah


Local Grocer


Little Ron


Derrick & Cragg





Jumpschool


Something for Marvin


Goliath Poem


Noir: Orpheus


Some Luminous Distress


Late


Tenderness





Blackbird


Lady Sings the Blues


Poet Dying at the Window


Mr. Mouse Plays the Blues


Hathaway


Woman Walking on the Road


When the Neighbors Fight


Midnight


Boxcar


Notes