Description: Outlandish Blues, Paperback by Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne, ISBN 0819565849, ISBN-13 9780819565846, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Honore 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.
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Book Title: Outlandish Blues
Item Length: 1in
Item Width: 1in
Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: General
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication Year: 2003
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Number of Pages: 72 Pages
