Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets

Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9780822382959
ISBN-13 : 0822382954
Rating : 4/5 (954 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets by : Jonathan Williams

Download or read book Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets written by Jonathan Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, “One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published.” Blues and Roots is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster.


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