[PDF.81rk] Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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 | #218881 in Books |  Wesleyan |  2003-04-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.16 x5.51l,.21 | File type: PDF | 72 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Perspective|By Melanie|Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' "Outlandish Blues" is full of historical references and religious allusions. Her poems place you within a cultural, social and temporal context. But even as she gives the sense of specific places and times, time and place seems to be a fluid space new millennium people in settings from the recent past.
While her genera|From Publishers Weekly|"Muse, a Lady Cautioning," dedicated to Billie Holiday, demonstrates Jeffers's ability, in this second collection, to create beautifully crafted, nuanced, ambivalent figures out of people who have become reified by myth or history: "Yes, t

Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honorée 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 sw...

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