Blues and Roots, Rue and Bluets: A Garland for the Southern Appalachians

Williams, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 082230614X / ISBN 13: 9780822306146

Published by Duke Univ Pr/Valentin Koerner, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1985

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INSCRIBED by Williams to Dick Rowson at half-title. Minor wear to dj with several very thin 1" opaque light brown spots at spine. NO SLIPCASE. Overall very crisp and clean.

Seller Inventory # 24620

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blues and Roots, Rue and Bluets: A Garland for the Southern Appalachians
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr/Valentin Koerner, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082230614X
• ISBN 13: 9780822306146
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature, Poetry, & Criticism

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.