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 have 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…mehr
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 have 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, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics-poems in their own right-from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
KEVIN YOUNG is the author of ten books of poetry, including Book of Hours, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, winner of a 2012 American Book Award; and Jelly Roll: A Blues, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the editor of The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink and seven other collections. His book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and won the PEN Open Book Award. He is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and English and curator of both Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.
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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 NICOLÁS GUILLÉN 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 Ndéssé, 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 PÉREZ 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 HONORÉE 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 THOMAS MCGRATH Gone Away Blues ROBERT CREELEY Broken Back Blues JOSEPH BRODSKY Blues WILLIAM MATTHEWS Narcissus Blues RAYMOND R. PATTERSON Special Pain Blues TOI DERRICOTTE Blackbottom MAJOR JACKSON How to Listen JANE COOPER Wanda’s Blues ALBERT MURRAY From Aubades NATASHA TRETHEWEY At the Station JEFF FALLIS Nosferatu Blues CHARLES SIMIC Bed Music JOHN YAU Domestic Bliss BOB KAUFMAN Blues for Hal Waters BOB KAUFMAN Heavy Water Blues WANDA COLEMAN Heavy Daughter Blues TERRANCE HAYES The Things-No-One-Knows Blues ANTHONY WALTON The Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues FINALE (For Bessie Smith) ALVIN AUBERT Bessie ROBERT HAYDEN Homage to the Empress of the Blues JACKIE KAY Twelve Bar Bessie MYRON O’HIGGINS Blues for Bessie WARING CUNEY Bessie Smith COLLEEN J. MCELROY Mae West Chats It Up with Bessie Smith MICHAEL S. HARPER Last Affair: Bessie’s Blues Song List of Authors Acknowledgments
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 NICOLÁS GUILLÉN 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 Ndéssé, 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 PÉREZ 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 HONORÉE 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 THOMAS MCGRATH Gone Away Blues ROBERT CREELEY Broken Back Blues JOSEPH BRODSKY Blues WILLIAM MATTHEWS Narcissus Blues RAYMOND R. PATTERSON Special Pain Blues TOI DERRICOTTE Blackbottom MAJOR JACKSON How to Listen JANE COOPER Wanda’s Blues ALBERT MURRAY From Aubades NATASHA TRETHEWEY At the Station JEFF FALLIS Nosferatu Blues CHARLES SIMIC Bed Music JOHN YAU Domestic Bliss BOB KAUFMAN Blues for Hal Waters BOB KAUFMAN Heavy Water Blues WANDA COLEMAN Heavy Daughter Blues TERRANCE HAYES The Things-No-One-Knows Blues ANTHONY WALTON The Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues FINALE (For Bessie Smith) ALVIN AUBERT Bessie ROBERT HAYDEN Homage to the Empress of the Blues JACKIE KAY Twelve Bar Bessie MYRON O’HIGGINS Blues for Bessie WARING CUNEY Bessie Smith COLLEEN J. MCELROY Mae West Chats It Up with Bessie Smith MICHAEL S. HARPER Last Affair: Bessie’s Blues Song List of Authors Acknowledgments
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