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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

Book ID
107691130
Publisher
Beacon Press
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Standards
ISBN
0807084867

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✦ Synopsis

All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition

During his lifetime (1924--1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise. These books, among them Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, Giovanni's Room, and Go Tell It on the Mountain,brought him well-deserved acclaim as a public intellectual and admiration as a writer. However, Baldwin's earliest writing was in poetic form, and Baldwin considered himself a poet throughout his lifetime. Nonetheless, his single book of poetry, Jimmy's Blues, never achieved the popularity of his novels and nonfiction, and is the one and only book to fall out of print.

This new collection presents James Baldwin the poet, including all nineteen poems from Jimmy's Blues, as well as all the poems from a... ϡ쯦랠

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