Jimmy's blues and other poems James Baldwin and Nikky Finney

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Notes: Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed January 23, 2014); Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.; Elecresource
Contents: Jimmy's Blues -- Staggerlee wonders -- Song (for Skip) -- Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.) -- The giver (for Berdis) -- 3.00 a.m. (for David) -- The darkest hour -- Imagination -- Confession -- Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne) -- Some days (for Paula) -- Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico) -- Christmas carol -- A lady like landscapes (for Simone Signoret) -- Guilt, Desire and Love -- Death is easy (for Jefe) -- Mirrors (for David) -- A Lover's Question -- Inventory/On Being 52 -- Amen -- Other Poems -- Gypsy -- Song for the Shepard Boy -- For A. -- For EARL -- Untitled -- BALLAD (for Yoran)
Summary: All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime, James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, many of which were published to widespread praise. Baldwin's novels and essays brought him respect as a public intellectual and admiration as a writer. However, Baldwin's earliest writing was in poetic form, and some argue that even Baldwin considered himself a poet first and foremost. One can see this inclination in the poetic rhythms of his prose. Nonetheless, his single book of poetry, Jimmy's Blues, published only a few short years before his death in 1987, never attracted as much of the spotlight as his novels and nonfiction did and has been unavailable for many years. This new collection celebrates Baldwin the poet. Including the nineteen poems from Jimmy's Blues, the collection also features his poems from a limited-edition art book called Gypsy, of which only 325 copies were ever printed. Known for his relentless honesty and startlingly prophetic insights on issues of race, class, poverty, and sexual orientation, Baldwin is just as enlightening and bold in his poetry as in his famous novels and essays

Data Source: Smithsonian Libraries

Date: 2014

Call number: PS3552.A45 A6 2014 (Internet)

author: Baldwin, James 1924-1987,
Author: Finney, Nikky

Restrictions & Rights: 1-user

Type: Electronic resources

Physical description: 1 online resource

Topic: Poetry; Poetry as Topic; Poésie; poetry; POETRY--American--African American; American; African American

Record ID: siris_sil_1161891

Usage: CC0