false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180787812m/1076794.jpg 1076794 2 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 &#8220;Sweet Home Chicago,&#8221; forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology&#8211;the first devoted exclusively to blues poems&#8211;a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power.<br><br>The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from &#8220;The Weary Blues&#8221; by Langston Hughes and &#8220;Funeral Blues&#8221; by W. H. Auden, to &#8220;Blues on Yellow&#8221; by Marilyn Chin and &#8220;Reservation Blues&#8221; 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&#8211;poems in their own right&#8211;from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters.<br><br>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. 1063507 2 9 2003 Blues Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) total:17|5:5|4:9|3:2|2:1|1:0| 17 69 25 1 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 14:58:17 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 15:00:28 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Nov 21 17:31:24 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 17:31:24 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 14 13:44:28 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 17:26:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 14 11:05:45 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 11:05:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jun 17 04:49:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 04:49:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 11 09:32:32 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 09:32:32 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon May 11 10:17:34 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 10:17:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 05 19:37:08 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 19:37:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 14 07:44:46 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 07:44:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 03 22:33:15 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 22:33:15 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 14 10:46:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 11:03:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jan 17 16:42:57 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:43:18 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jan 09 22:12:58 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 22:12:58 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Dec 04 17:00:49 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 17:00:49 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Jun 25 13:47:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 13:47:01 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon May 26 10:20:11 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 10:20:11 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Apr 16 12:09:49 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 12:09:49 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Mar 28 11:27:47 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 11:27:49 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Mon Mar 24 18:04:08 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 18:04:08 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Feb 23 16:45:55 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 16:45:55 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1076794