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Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues.
Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne and other notable performers.
Something About the Blues includes an audio CD with Al Young’s dynamic, soulful readings of more than 20 of the poems from the book, plus Langston Hughes’ reading of his classic “The Weary Blues.” Many of Young’s performances feature a live blues band.
Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne and other notable performers.
Something About the Blues includes an audio CD with Al Young’s dynamic, soulful readings of more than 20 of the poems from the book, plus Langston Hughes’ reading of his classic “The Weary Blues.” Many of Young’s performances feature a live blues band.
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Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes was the first to popularize the blues as a poetic form. According to Hughes, the blues were born as poetry, sung by working men to share their stories of hard-luck lives and tough times. Their tales had a natural rhythm that begged for a beat, and musical blues was born. Today, “poetry over music” scenes across the country recall Hughes’s legacy. California Poet Laureate Al Young carries on that legacy in Something About the Blues, with 120 new and previously published poems that evoke the blues in stories about life and music.
The blues come to life on the enclosed audio CD:
--Nearly an hour of Al Young’s dynamic storytelling readings
--Langston Hughes reads his inspirational “The Weary Blues”
--Many of Al Young’s performances feature a live band
San Francisco Bay Area based poet-novelist-essayist Al Young was named Poet Laureate of California in 2005, and is the author of more than 20 books. Among his honors: Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA Fellowships, The Joseph Henry Jackson Award, Stanford’s Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship, the Stephen Henderson Award for Poetry and the 2007 Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award. Young’s titles include Heaven: Collected Poems 1956–1990; The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990–2000; Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons : Poems 2001–2006; Mingus Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman); Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs; African American Literature : A Brief Introduction and Anthology; and the novels Snakes, Who Is Angelina?, Seduction by Light and Sitting Pretty.
The blues come to life on the enclosed audio CD:
--Nearly an hour of Al Young’s dynamic storytelling readings
--Langston Hughes reads his inspirational “The Weary Blues”
--Many of Al Young’s performances feature a live band
San Francisco Bay Area based poet-novelist-essayist Al Young was named Poet Laureate of California in 2005, and is the author of more than 20 books. Among his honors: Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA Fellowships, The Joseph Henry Jackson Award, Stanford’s Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship, the Stephen Henderson Award for Poetry and the 2007 Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award. Young’s titles include Heaven: Collected Poems 1956–1990; The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990–2000; Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons : Poems 2001–2006; Mingus Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman); Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs; African American Literature : A Brief Introduction and Anthology; and the novels Snakes, Who Is Angelina?, Seduction by Light and Sitting Pretty.
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