Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo

by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Book Overview

Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.

Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)

Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honor e Fanonne Jeffers sees the blues, what she terms the "shared 'blue notes, ''' as an important intersection between the secular and the divine, and between the various African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819565849
• ISBN13: 9780819565846
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up