Jelly Roll: (A Blues) (Paperback)
In this jaunty and intimate collection,Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic,as low-down and high-hearted,as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as Stride Piano, Gutbucket, and Can-Can, these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start),only to end up lamenting the loss of love