Something about the Blues An Unlikely Collection of Poetry

Name: Something about the Blues An Unlikely Collection of Poetry
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ISBN: 9781402210648

ISBN-10: 1402210647

ISBN-13: 9781402210648

Edition: 2007

Authors: Al Young

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Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne and other notable performers. Something About the Blues includes an audio CD with Al Young's dynamic, soulful readings of more than 20 of the poems from the book, plus Langston Hughes? reading of his classic ?The Weary Blues.? Many of Young's performances feature…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 8.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English