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Blues & roots, rue & bluets : a garland for the southern Appalachians / Jonathan Williams ; introduction by Herbert Leibowitz.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mountain life--Poetry.
Mountain life.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Poetry.
Appalachian Region, Southern.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (114 p.)
Other Title:
Blues and roots, rue and bluets
Blues and roots, rue and bluets.
Place of Publication:
[Durham, N.C.] : Duke University Press, c1985.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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 s
Contents:
Introduction; A Note
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
ISBN:
9786612919954
9781282919952
1282919954
9780822382959
0822382954
OCLC:
276369522

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