The subsequent blues / Gary Copeland Lilley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lilley, Gary.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Four Way Books ; Hanover, NH : Distributed by University Press of New England, 2004.

Summary:

Gary Copeland Lilley writes sonnets and he writes scat, applying traditional forms to untraditional subjects, achieving great grace and insight via 'high' and 'low' cultural fusions. He examines the DC ghetto and an assortment of its players (voodoo priests, junkies, soldiers, mothers...) through the lenses of both a sonnet's crucial turn and the jazz riff's apparent, adamant stream-of-consciousness. E. Ethelbert Miller writes of The Subsequent Blues, "Gary Copeland Lilley writes like a man who owns a Stetson hat. Is he Stagolee? The Subsequent Blues is a book filled with a sinner's honesty. Lilley captures life with all its blue tones and shades. From cigarette smoke, to drinks and drugs, a few of the poems are as seductive as a woman's thighs. Lilley has seen enough bad times and death that each poem he writes has that flicker of light we once called soul. Put this book in your mojo bag."

Contents:

Prelude to the Predicament

Ritual of the Bush

Sanctuaries for the Deacon's Sons

Oracle at the End of the Bar

Rudeboy in the Light

Our Lady of the Birds

The Autobiography of Marcella Ricks

Askari's Flow, the Free Style

All That Lazarus Jazz

King Elijah Gives Keisha the Recipe to Get Rid of Robert

King Elijah's Directions to the Graveyard

How to Cook Road Kill

The Pentecostal Minister

The New Resident Prostitute

Let the Devil First Ask One Question

There I Was Walking the Therapeutic Mile

If You're Looking in the Woods for Legba

The Parable of Not Paying Proper Tithes, Part 1

The Parable of Not Paying Proper Tithes, Part 2

The Parable of Not Paying Proper Tithes, Part 3

The Beautician

Looking at Cheryl's Love

So I Come Back and Find that Now She's Taken the TV

For Sergeant Daniel Anderson, Airborne

A Sacrement for the Egun

The Blind Boys at the 9:30 Club

The King of the One-Legged Ass Kickers

Toast to Paul the Cat, Drugged In

My Head is a Mojo Bag

Putting the Match to the Cigarette

Divining the InterSection of Automobile and Dog

The Authority of Burnsides' Rule is on the Ass-Pocket of Whiskey

Offering to Oshun at the 55 Club

Voyeur

Who Sez Thunderbirds Can't Fly

Hitting It at The Paradise Apartments

Blackheart

(Not in the Rap Sheet or the Obituary)

Dear Jeffrey, I Don't Care if You're Crazy.

Report From Marcus, the Hearse Driver for Wilson's Funeral Home

The Ride from Ellington Bridge

My Bones Burning Down

High Point

Waiting for Harry

Riding with the Dragon

I'm Gonna Live Long Unless Something Kills Me

Prayer to Saint James Byrd of Jasper, Texas.

ISBN:

1884800548

OCLC:

57516388