Synopsis
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.
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"Jonathan Williams offers us in every poem a lyric line of suave clarity and highly involved verbal harmony."-Guy Davenport
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Jonathan Williams (1929-2008), photographer, poet, and publisher, was founder of the Jargon Society Press. His many works include An Ear in Bartram's Tree: Selected Poems, 1957-1967; Quote,Unquote; A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude; The Magpie's Bagpipe: Selected Essays; and Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems as well as the collection Portrait Photographs.
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Blues & Roots / Rue & Bluets: A Garland for the Southern Appalachians
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Duke University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 0822306360
ISBN 13: 9780822306368
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards in dust-jacket, housed in blue slipcase. In an edition of 75 signed, slipcased editions, this is no.29. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 210366