Blues Poems
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Title
Blues Poems
This edition
"Blues Poems". Ed. Kevin Young. New York: Knopf, 2003. 256 pp.
Table of contents
STANDARDS (Blues poems before World War II):; The weary blues /; Langston Hughes --; Morning after /; Langston Hughes --; Beale street love /; Langston Hughes --; Song for a dark girl /; Langston Hughes --; Midwinter blues /; Langston Hughes --; Too blue /; Langston Hughes --; Note on commercial theatre /; Langston Hughes --; Tired /; Fenton Johnson --; The harlem dancer /; Claude McKay --; Memory blues /; Nancy Cunard --; Colored blues singer /; Countee Cullen --; Ma Rainey /; Sterling Brown --; Choices /; Sterling Brown --; High brown /; Nicolas Guillen --; Sootie Joe /; Melvin B. Tolson --; Street-level jazz /; Maxwell Bodenheim --; Blues /; W.H. Auden --; Funeral blues /; W.H. Auden --; George Robinson: Blues /; Muriel Rukeyser --; Ndesse, or "Blues' /; Leopold Senghor --; Guitar /; Owen Dodson --; Blue stanzas /; Charles Edward Smith --; Red clay blues /; Richard Wright and Langston Hughes --; The F B eye blues /; Richard Wright --; Dicty blues /; Vincent McHugh --; Down-home boy /; Waring cuney --; Carry me back /; Waring cuney --; Let me tell you blues singers something /; Waring cuney --; Queen of the blues /; Gwendolyn Brooks --; SOME SONGS:; St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy --; Crazy blues / Mamie Smith --; See see rider blues / Ma Rainey --; Empty bed blues /; Bessie Smith --; Backwater blues /; Bessie Smith --; Gimme a pigfoot /; Bessie Smith --; Wil women don't have the blues /; Ida Cox --; Trouble in mind /; Richard M. Jones --; Jesus make up my dying bed /; Blind Willie Johnson --; Death letter blues /; Son House --; Kindhearted woman blues /; Robert Johnson --; Hellhound on my trail /; Robert Johnson --; Love in vain /; Robert Johnson --; Sent for you yesterday /; Jimmy Rushing --; Good morning blues /; Leadbelly --; Hoochie coochie man /; Muddy waters --; Hound dog /; Big Mama Thorton --; FORM:; You know /; Jayne Cortez --; Look for you yesterday, here you come today /; Amiri Baraka --; Blues /; Sonia Sanchez --; Blues haikus /; Sonia Sanchez --; Set. no. 2 /; Sonia Sanchez --; Master charge blues /; Nikki Giovanni --; Inflation blues /; Margaret Walker --; Woke up crying the blues /; Quincy Troupe --; Letter: blues /; Elizabeth Alexander --; Cheating woman blues haiku /; A. Van Jordan --; Feeling fucked up /; Etheridge Knight --; FACING OFF:; The blues /; James C. Morris --; Married blues /; Kenneth Rexroth --; Lonesome boy blues /; Kenneth Patchen --; Concentration camp blues /; Henry Dumas --; Outer space blues /; Henry Dumas --; Blues /; Derek Walcott --; Reservation blues /; Sherman Alexie --; Bilingual blues /; Gustavo Perez Firmat --; Blues on yellow /; Marilyn Chin --; Blue /; Carl Phillips --; Deep song /; Gayl Jones --; Soledad /; Calvin Forbes --; Some pieces /; Calvin Forbes --; Broom song /; Darrell Burton --; Sickness blues /; Allen Ginsberg --; Bad mother blues /; Sandra McPherson --; Rambling /; Afaa M. Weaver --; Uncle bull-boy /; June Jordan --; Get away 1928 /; Tracie Morris --; Joe Chappel's foot log bottom blues 1952 /; Sean Hill --; Swing shift blues /; Alan Dugan --; The blues /; Billy Collins --; FIGURES:; Any woman's blues /; Sherley Anne Williams --; I'm a fool to love you /; Cornelius Eady --; Muddy waters & the Chicago blues /; Cornelius Eady --; Leadbelly /; Cornelius Eady --; Langston Hughes /; Kevin Young --; Song for Langston /; Willie Perdomo --; Muddy waters /; Sterling Plump --; Big Mama Thorton /; Honoree Fanonne Jeffers --; Poems almost wholly in my own manner /; Charles Wright --; Dream song [no.40] /; John Berryman --; John Berryman listening to Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, January 1972 /; David Wojahn --; Arrival /; Forrest Hamer --; Not guilty /; David Rivard --; Bulosan listens to a recording of Robert Johnson /; Alfred Encarnacion --; FREIGHT:; The blues don't change /; Al Young --; Cinderella /; G.E. Patterson --; Annabelle /; Yusef Komunyakaa --; For you, sweetheart, I'll sell plutonium reactors /; Yusef Komunyakaa --; Woman, I got the blues /; Yusef Komunyakaa --; Hard-luck resume /; Catherine Bowman --; Gone away blues /; Thomas McGrath --; Broken back blues /; Robert Creeley --; Blues /; Joseph Brodsky --; Narcissus blues /; William Matthews --; Special pain blues /; Raymond R. Patterson --; Blackbottom /; Toi Dorricotte --; How to listen /; Major Jackson --; Wanda blues /; Jane Cooper --; From Aubades /; Albert Murray --; At the station /; Natasha Trethewey --; Nosferatu blues /; Jeff Fallis --; Bed music /; Charles Simic --; Domestic bliss /; John Yau --; Blues for Hal Waters /; Bob Kaufman --; Heavy water blues /; Bob Kaufman--; Heavy daughter blues /; Wanda Coleman --; The things-no-one-knows blues /; Terrance Hayes --; The encyclopedia of rhythm and blues /; Anthony Walton --; FINALE (For Bessie Smith):; Bessie /; Alvin Aubert --; Homage to the empress of the blues /; Robert Hayden --; Twelve bar Bessie /; Jackie Kay --; Blues for Bessie /; Myron O'Higgins --; Bessie Smith /; Waring Cuney --; Mae West chats it up with Bessie Smith /; Colleen J. McElroy --; Last affair: Bessie's blues song /; Michael Harper.
Item Number
A0371