Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo by Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne

Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo

Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)Fierce and sensual,...
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Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo by Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne

Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo

$26.01

Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo

$26.01
Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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. 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 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.



Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 04/29/2003
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.64w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780819565846


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2003 pg. 1038
Black Issues Book Review 03/01/2003 pg. 30
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 59
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2004 pg. 70 - Recommended/Special Interest

About the Author

Honoree Fannone Jeffers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of The Gospel of Barbecue (2000), for which she received the Wick Poetry Prize.


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