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Jelly roll : a blues
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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 ©Strid...
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 start♯), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (©No use driving / like rain, past / where you at♯). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all.
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- Creator
- composed & arranged by Kevin Young
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Knopf, 2003
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- 190 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780375414602, 0375414606
- OCLC
- ocm49737128
- 1. Cakewalk -- Dixieland -- Siren -- Rhythm & blues -- Shimmy -- Zoot -- Etude -- Ditty -- Ragtime -- Jingle -- Boogie-woogie -- Gutbucket -- Field song -- Cheer -- Blue movie -- Jook -- Summer song -- Overture -- Jitterbug -- Early blues -- Fantasia -- Aubade -- Blackbottom -- Nones -- Boogaloo -- Mic check -- Tune -- Can-can -- Boasts -- Song of smoke -- Swing -- Stride piano -- Prelude -- Errata -- Nocturne -- 2. Break -- Cantata: Recitative -- Aria -- Chorus -- Duet -- Blues -- Jive -- Rhapsody -- Sorrow song -- Vespers -- Player piano -- Harvest song -- Foxtrot -- Reed song -- Country )& western) -- Riff -- Bluegrass -- Disaster movie theme music -- Madrigal -- Drum talk -- Calypso -- Gumbo -- Encore -- Locomotive songs -- Autumn song -- Busking -- Doo wop -- Banjo -- Funk -- Sleepwalking psalms: Every day since -- The television we bought -- Soon I'll thank you -- Sometimes I feel like the stargazers -- When I said I didn't mind -- Stumbling home -- There are no more saints -- I love you the way a liar loves -- Barbeque dreams -- These days so hot you forget -- Chorale -- Torch song -- Fish story -- Jubilee -- Suite -- 3. Envoy -- Scherzo -- Ramble -- Anthem -- Tacit -- Honky tonk -- Saxophone solo -- Slide guitar -- Plainsong -- Lyre -- Requiem -- Dirge -- Deep song -- Evensong -- Opera -- Evensong -- Opera -- Song of sowing -- Rock -- Interlude -- & roll -- Mood -- Instrumental -- Pastorale -- Vows -- Muzak -- Hero -- Song of solstice -- Coda -- Parlor song -- Intermezzo -- Threnody -- cotillion -- Late blues -- Litany -- Elegy, Niagara Falls