Blues and Poets

Subject: Blues and Poets
From: rea
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 01:11 PM

Looking for names of poets whose proses has the same "feel of blues music (for a friend). Any thoughts?

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 03:51 PM

Alan Ginsberg? Langston Hughes?

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 03:58 PM

Some of Dylan Thomas?

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 03:59 PM

Don't let Max see this post! He, and many others, will tell you that the lyrics of blues songs are pure poetry in themselves. You can't improve on perfection.

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 05 Aug 01 - 11:25 AM

rea; I didn't mean to kill this thread with my previous post, but it's hard to tell what you and your friend are looking for. If you want short poems which express emotionally intense feelings in a concise few lines, Emily Dickinson might answer your search.
Carl Sandburg's poetry often seems to demand reading with a blues or jazz rhythm.
On the other hand if you are looking for poems expressing misery because your man has just mistreated you, your mojo won't work no more, you ain't got a dime or a friend in the world, and the hellhound is on your trail.....etc etc you get the idea.

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: Amos
Date: 05 Aug 01 - 11:53 AM

Call high schools and ask for their literary annuals. Almost every teenager with any poetic bent starts out writing poerty that is just a bunch of blues.

A

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: Mark Clark
Date: 05 Aug 01 - 03:46 PM

You might try "Mexico City Blues" by Jack Kerouac. It's a book length poem in 242 chorses. You can read the 211^th chorus here.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 04:34 AM

Try Sterling D. Plumpp

Subject: RE: Blues and Poets
From: rea
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:15 PM

Thanks! I'll look at all of them. And yes, I think music is poetry, too, but my friend wants to try some of the 'traditional' not yet to music stuff. :)