| Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets: A Garland for the Southern Appalachians Contributor(s): Williams, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822306158 ISBN-13: 9780822306153 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1985 Annotation: The poems of Blues & Roots / Rue & Bluets make up an unofficial oral history in verse of the Southern Appalachian folk often vilified and dismissed as hillbillies. Most of these poems are composed in a pungent dialect, as if Huck Finn had settled in the Blue Ridge or Smoky Mountains and continued to view the world's propensity for stupidity and meanness with the humorist's clear-eyed and trenchant truth-telling. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Nature |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 84021126 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.87" W x 9.85" (0.61 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 speech of his mountain neighbors. Publishers Weekly said of the earlier edition, "One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published." Blues and Roots is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster. |