Author:Kevin Young
The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues--inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics-poems in their own right-from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters.
The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.
A deeply serious, enjoyably lucid book about real terrors and joys, full of sensual and surprising details
—— Scotland on SundayNair conveys her protagonist's dilemmas with a freshness and charm... Her writing [has] a sharpness and immediacy that lifts it above the commonplace
—— The TimesModern India's vivid, sticky beauty is evoked beautifully... Nair's compassion for her characters shines through every carefully chosen word
—— Sunday TribuneAnita Nair demonstrates convincingly that she is a writer committed to highlighting the travails and contradictions of women's lives. Her strength lies in bringing alive everyday thoughts, desires and doubts of these six ordinary women
—— Times Literary SupplementNair is a powerful writer... She has created what must be one of the most important feminist novels to come out of South Asia
—— Daily TelegraphHere is a fine Iliad for our times, to be read with great pleasure
—— Philip Howard , The Times
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