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Jelly Roll

A Blues

Jelly Roll( )
Author: Young, Kevin
ISBN:978-0-375-41460-2
Publication Date:Jan 2003
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Knopf
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $45.95
Book Description:

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 /...
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Music / Genres & Styles / Blues
Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.154 x 19.914 x 2.438 cm
Book Weight:0.409 Kilograms



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