Jelly Roll: A Blues（现货，实拍书影）

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作者Kevin Young

出版社Knopf; Reprint edition

ISBN9780375709890

出版时间1975

印刷时间2005

装帧平装

尺寸20.2 × 15.6 cm

页数208页

货号t2

上书时间2020-01-10

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商品描述: 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 “CanCan,” 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 / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all.

Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of the self at its strongest.

Kevin Young is Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library and poetry editor of The New Yorker. He is the former curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University. His books of poetry include Brown, Dear Darkness, and Jelly Roll: A Blues. He has previously edited the anthology Blues Poems, Jazz Poems, and, for Library of America, John Berryman: Selected Poems.

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