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Blue Notes - Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Hardcover)
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Blue Notes - Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Hardcover)
Series: Poets on Poetry
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"Blue Notes" offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyakaa's
writing on contemporary poetry and music. The book is arranged in
four sections. The first gathers essays on the work of poets and
blues and jazz musicians influential to Komunyakaa's work, from
Langston Hughes and Etheridge Knight to Ma Rainey and Thelonious
Monk; the second collects a gallery of Komunyakaa's poems and the
poet's commentary about each of them. The third selects interviews
that reveal the development of the poet's aesthetic sensibility.
The final section consists of four artistic explorations that
reflect the poet's current interests. Two of of these texts,
"Tenebrae" and "Buddy's Monologue," have been recently
performed.
As editor Radiclani Clytus makes clear in the volume's introductory
essay, although Komunyakaa's poetry has its roots in the stylistic
innovations of early twentieth-century American modernists, his
writing often reflects his understanding that a "black" experience
should not particularize the presentation of one's art. This
volume, according to the editor, is an attempt to understand
Komunyakaa's critical eclecticism within the context of his own
words.
Yusef Komunyakaa's books of poetry include "I Apologize for the
Eyes in My Head, Magic City, Thieves of Paradise," and "Neon
Vernacular," for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 1994.
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