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| Foreword | 13 | |
| The Weary Blues | 19 | |
| Morning After | 21 | |
| Beale Street Love | 22 | |
| Song for a Dark Girl | 23 | |
| Midwinter Blues | 24 | |
| Too Blue | 25 | |
| Note on Commercial Theatre | 26 | |
| Tired | 27 | |
| The Harlem Dancer | 28 | |
| Memory Blues | 29 | |
| Colored Blues Singer | 30 | |
| Ma Rainey | 31 | |
| Choices | 34 | |
| High Brown | 36 | |
| Sootie Joe | 37 | |
| Street-level Jazz | 38 | |
| Blues | 40 | |
| Funeral Blues | 42 | |
| George Robinson: Blues | 43 | |
| Ndesse, or "Blues" | 46 | |
| Guitar | 47 | |
| Blues Stanzas | 49 | |
| Red Clay Blues | 50 | |
| The FB Eye Blues | 52 | |
| Dicty Blues | 54 | |
| Down-home Boy | 55 | |
| Carry Me Back | 56 | |
| Let Me Tell You Blues Singers Something | 56 | |
| Queen of the Blues | 57 | |
| St. Louis Blues | 63 | |
| Crazy Blues | 66 | |
| See See Rider Blues | 68 | |
| Empty Bed Blues | 69 | |
| Backwater Blues | 72 | |
| Gimme a Pigfoot | 74 | |
| Wild Women Don't Have the Blues | 76 | |
| Trouble in Mind | 77 | |
| Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed | 79 | |
| Death Letter Blues | 81 | |
| Kindhearted Woman Blues | 86 | |
| Hellhound on My Trail | 88 | |
| Love in Vain | 90 | |
| Sent for You Yesterday | 92 | |
| Good Morning Blues | 93 | |
| Hoochie Coochie Man | 95 | |
| Hound Dog | 97 | |
| You Know | 101 | |
| Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today | 104 | |
| Blues | 109 | |
| Blues Haikus | 110 | |
| Set. No. 2 | 112 | |
| Master Charge Blues | 113 | |
| Inflation Blues | 115 | |
| Woke Up Crying the Blues | 118 | |
| Letter: Blues | 120 | |
| Cheating Woman Blues Haiku | 122 | |
| Feeling Fucked/Up | 123 | |
| The Blues | 127 | |
| Married Blues | 128 | |
| Lonesome Boy Blues | 129 | |
| Concentration Camp Blues | 130 | |
| Outer Space Blues | 131 | |
| Blues | 132 | |
| Reservation Blues | 134 | |
| Bilingual Blues | 135 | |
| Blues on Yellow | 136 | |
| Blue | 138 | |
| Deep Song | 140 | |
| Soledad | 142 | |
| Some Pieces | 143 | |
| Broom Song | 145 | |
| Sickness Blues | 146 | |
| Bad Mother Blues | 148 | |
| Rambling | 150 | |
| Uncle Bull-boy | 152 | |
| Get Away 1928 | 154 | |
| Joe Chappel's Foot Log Bottom Blues 1952 | 156 | |
| Swing Shift Blues | 158 | |
| The Blues | 159 | |
| Any Woman's Blues | 163 | |
| I'm a Fool to Love You | 165 | |
| Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues | 167 | |
| Leadbelly | 168 | |
| Langston Hughes | 169 | |
| Song for Langston | 171 | |
| Muddy Waters | 172 | |
| Big Mama Thornton | 174 | |
| Poem Almost Wholly in My Own Manner | 175 | |
| Dream Song [no. 40] | 178 | |
| John Berryman Listening to Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, January 1972 | 179 | |
| Arrival | 180 | |
| Not Guilty | 181 | |
| Bulosan Listens to a Recording of Robert Johnson | 183 | |
| The Blues Don't Change | 187 | |
| Cinderella | 189 | |
| Annabelle | 190 | |
| For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors | 191 | |
| Woman, I Got the Blues | 193 | |
| Hard-Luck Resume | 194 | |
| Gone Away Blues | 195 | |
| Broken Back Blues | 197 | |
| Blues | 199 | |
| Narcissus Blues | 200 | |
| Special Pain Blues | 201 | |
| Blackbottom | 203 | |
| How to Listen | 205 | |
| Wanda's Blues | 206 |
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William Austin
reviewed Blues Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) on August 28, 2011
Blues Poems
I picked up this book in a bookstore in New Orleans a couple of years ago - I had finished the paperback I had brought with me, and I wanted a little book I could put in my pocket and read while I ate red beans and rice or gumbo in a restaurant, or had a beer in a French Quarter bar. I enjoyed it then, but had never read it through until today. It's kind of a mixed bag, but my impressions are positive, for the most part. It has poems by older African-American poets (Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen), Beat poets (Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg), younger poets (Billy Collins, Natasha Tretheway), and lyrics from blues songs. Some of the poems are better than others, but that's only to expected from this kind of anthology. I found it to be quite enjoyable, for the most part.
My biggest caveat: I know that transcribing blues lyrics from old records is difficult, especially for a non-Southerner. But editor Kevin Young's ear, as well as his common sense, deserts him in his transcription of Son House's masterpiece, "Death Letter Blues." Too bad; "Death Letter Blues" is perhaps the most stunning account of the progression of grief in the English language.
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Add Blues Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets), 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 Sweet Home Chicago, forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted e, Blues Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) to your collection on WonderClub |
