STANDARDS (Blues poems before World War II): The
... weary blues / Langston Hughes -- Morning after / Langston Hughes -- Beale street love / Langston Hughes -- Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes -- Midwinter blues / Langston Hughes -- Too blue / Langston Hughes -- Note on commercial theatre / Langston Hughes -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- The harlem dancer / Claude McKay -- Memory blues / Nancy Cunard -- Colored blues singer / Countee Cullen -- Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown -- Choices / Sterling Brown -- High brown / Nicolas Guillen -- Sootie Joe / Melvin B. Tolson -- Street-level jazz / Maxwell Bodenheim -- Blues / W. H. Auden -- Funeral blues / W. H. Auden -- George Robinson: Blues / Muriel Rukeyser -- Ndesse, or "Blues' / Leopold Senghor -- Guitar / Owen Dodson -- Blue stanzas / Charles Edward Smith -- Red clay blues / Richard Wright and Langston Hughes -- The F B eye blues / Richard Wright -- Dicty blues / Vincent McHugh -- Down-home boy / Waring cuney -- Carry me back / Waring cuney -- Let me tell you blues singers something / Waring cuney -- Queen of the blues / Gwendolyn Brooks -- SOME SONGS: St. Louis blues / W. C. Handy -- Crazy blues / Mamie Smith -- See see rider blues / Ma Rainey -- Empty bed blues / Bessie Smith -- Backwater blues / Bessie Smith -- Gimme a pigfoot / Bessie Smith -- Wil women don't have the blues / Ida Cox -- Trouble in mind / Richard M. Jones -- Jesus make up my dying bed / Blind Willie Johnson -- Death letter blues / Son House -- Kindhearted woman blues / Robert Johnson -- Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson -- Love in vain / Robert Johnson -- Sent for you yesterday / Jimmy Rushing -- Good morning blues / Leadbelly -- Hoochie coochie man / Muddy waters -- Hound dog / Big Mama Thorton -- FORM: You know / Jayne Cortez -- Look for you yesterday, here you come today / Amiri Baraka -- Blues / Sonia Sanchez -- Blues haikus / Sonia Sanchez -- Set. no. 2 / Sonia Sanchez -- Master charge blues / Nikki Giovanni -- Inflation blues / Margaret Walker -- Woke up crying the blues / Quincy Troupe -- Letter: blues / Elizabeth Alexander -- Cheating woman blues haiku / A. Van Jordan -- Feeling fucked up / Etheridge Knight -- FACING OFF: The blues / James C. Morris -- Married blues / Kenneth Rexroth -- Lonesome boy blues / Kenneth Patchen -- Concentration camp blues / Henry Dumas -- Outer space blues / Henry Dumas -- Blues / Derek Walcott -- Reservation blues / Sherman Alexie -- Bilingual blues / Gustavo Perez Firmat -- Blues on yellow / Marilyn Chin -- Blue / Carl Phillips -- Deep song / Gayl Jones -- Soledad / Calvin Forbes -- Some pieces / Calvin Forbes -- Broom song / Darrell Burton -- Sickness blues / Allen Ginsberg -- Bad mother blues / Sandra McPherson -- Rambling / Afaa M. Weaver -- Uncle bull-boy / June Jordan -- Get away 1928 / Tracie Morris -- Joe Chappel's foot log bottom blues 1952 / Sean Hill -- Swing shift blues / Alan Dugan -- The blues / Billy Collins -- FIGURES: Any woman's blues / Sherley Anne Williams -- I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady -- Muddy waters & the Chicago blues / Cornelius Eady -- Leadbelly / Cornelius Eady -- Langston Hughes / Kevin Young -- Song for Langston / Willie Perdomo -- Muddy waters / Sterling Plump -- Big Mama Thorton / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers -- Poems almost wholly in my own manner / Charles Wright -- Dream song [no.40] / John Berryman -- John Berryman listening to Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, January 1972 / David Wojahn -- Arrival / Forrest Hamer -- Not guilty / David Rivard -- Bulosan listens to a recording of Robert Johnson / Alfred Encarnacion -- FREIGHT: The blues don't change / Al Young -- Cinderella / G. E. Patterson -- Annabelle / Yusef Komunyakaa -- For you, sweetheart, I'll sell plutonium reactors / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Woman, I got the blues / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Hard-luck resume / Catherine Bowman -- Gone away blues / Thomas McGrath -- Broken back blues / Robert Creeley -- Blues / Joseph Brodsky -- Narcissus blues / William Matthews -- Special pain blues / Raymond R. Patterson -- Blackbottom / Toi Dorricotte -- How to listen / Major Jackson -- Wanda blues / Jane Cooper -- From Aubades / Albert Murray -- At the station / Natasha Trethewey -- Nosferatu blues / Jeff Fallis -- Bed music / Charles Simic -- Domestic bliss / John Yau -- Blues for Hal Waters / Bob Kaufman -- Heavy water blues / Bob Kaufman-- Heavy daughter blues / Wanda Coleman -- The things-no-one-knows blues / Terrance Hayes -- The encyclopedia of rhythm and blues / Anthony Walton -- FINALE (For Bessie Smith): Bessie / Alvin Aubert -- Homage to the empress of the blues / Robert Hayden -- Twelve bar Bessie / Jackie Kay -- Blues for Bessie / Myron O'Higgins -- Bessie Smith / Waring Cuney -- Mae West chats it up with Bessie Smith / Colleen J. McElroy -- Last affair: Bessie's blues song / Michael Harper. Read More
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