Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets

Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets

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Williams, Jonathan
Duke University Press
EAN: 9780822382959
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Jonathan Williams's poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic. This new, much enlarged edition of Blues and Roots displays all of the above. Williams has tramped the Appalachian Trail for decades, botanizing, jotting down specimens of authentic American speech, graffiti, superstitions, and nostrums-always curious, alert, and affectionately attentive. Blues and Roots focuses on the linguistic horizon of Appalachia in lyrics of wonder and light, of wit and comic incongruity, in found poems of the speech of his mountain neighbors. Publishers Weekly said of the earlier edition, &quote;One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published.&quote; Blues and Roots is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster.
EAN 9780822382959
ISBN 0822382954
Binding Ebook
Publisher Duke University Press
Publication date March 29, 2008
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Williams, Jonathan