Outlandish Blues - Couverture souple

Fanonne Jeffers, Honorée

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819565849 ISBN 13 : 9780819565846

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.

Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)

Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers sees the blues, what she terms the "shared 'blue notes, ''' as an important intersection between the secular and the divine, and between the various African American vernacular traditions, from spirituals to jazz. Part Nina Simone, part Bessie Smith, her poems are filled with a sweaty honesty, moving from the personal to the collective experience. This movement is often accomplished through the use of personae, concentrated here in a stunning series of poems on the Biblical figures of Hagar and Sarah. Whether about a contemporary domestic scene, a slave ship, or Aretha Franklin, these are poems that speak to the soul of experience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Honoree Fannone Jeffers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of The Gospel of Barbecue (2000), for which she received the Wick Poetry Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819565849
• ISBN 13: 9780819565846
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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