TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,Kevin
TI  - Blues poems
SN  - 0375414584 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Songs and music
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Texts
KW  - American poetry
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Blues (Music)
KW  - Music
N1  - Standards (blues poems before World War II) -- Some songs -- Form -- Facing off -- Figures -- Freight -- Finale (for Bessie Smith) -- List of authors -- Acknowledgments
N2  - The blues-a musical tradition uniquely American-has had a powerful influence on American poets, and this scintillating anthology offers a richness of poetry as varied and vital as the music that inspired it
ER  -