Jelly Roll: A Blues
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Book Overview
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 / civilization...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0375709894
ISBN13:9780375709890
Release Date:February 2005
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
amazing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I read this book in one sitting on an airplane and I was mesmerized. I kept looking to my right to see if the woman next to me was peeking over my shoulder. The poems were so good I thought she should have been able to feel it and want to read, too.
great collection
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
another fine book by one of most talented poets
if you know poetry, you'll love this
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Sorry one of the previous "reviewers" apparently hasn't ever read good poetry before, but Jelly Roll is the real deal: smart, savvy, really original yet totally accesible. Young here solidifies his reputation as one of America's hottest poets to check for. And it's a gorgeous, gorgeous book to boot!
Keep It Rolling...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Put this book next to his previous "To Repel Ghost" & readers have a solid sense of the aesthetic range Kevin Young aspires to. These poems sing, they signify, cry & dance with a Morrisonian spectrum of emotion, tuning into the full complexity of Blues. The book, its form, are as informed as they are playful & experimental--the voice confident yet not afraid to examine itself, and chuckle.
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