Bessie Smith
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A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland's National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1899791701
ISBN13:9781899791705
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:Absolute Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.8" x 7.3"
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Lyrical and Thoughtful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
A beautiful melody of a book, Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay evokes the life of the great blueswoman through a provocative interweaving of fact, poetry, blues lyrics, and imaginings. It is also about the awakening of a young girl's (the author's) sense of herself as female and black. If you prefer dry facts only, or are doing serious research, look to another biography. If there's a bit of repetition in this book, well, think about the blues. If you want to immerse yourself in Bessie's blues, read this book in one sitting, and read it out loud. Then get out your old vinyls and a bottle of gin, and read it again.
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