Author

Publication

2001-11-13 - Pantheon Books, New York, USA, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

18,250 words, Guess

Page Count

73 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveconjugationsreit00murr
  • ISBN-100375421416
  • ISBN-139780375421419
  • LibraryThing4987950
  • Goodreads1176311
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3563.U764 C66 2001

Description

In *Conjugations and Reiterations* Albert Murray, one of the premier literary men of our time, gives us his first collection of poetry. Wide ranging and informed by his singular intelligence and sensibility, these poems are extraordinary for their keen folk wisdom and striking lyricism, partaking of the idioms of blues and jazz. The vicissitudes of American life, the improvisatory nature of American art, the profundities of the Gospel and of gospel music—these are but a few of the concerns in Murray’s poetic achievement. *Conjugations and Reiterations* stands in ringing confirmation of The New Yorker’s celebration of Albert Murray as a writer “possessed of the poet’s language, the novelist’s sensibility, the essayist’s clarity, the jazzman’s imagination, and the gospel singer’s depth of feeling.”

Description

A collection of poems by contemporary American author Albert Murray.

Subjects

Topics

JazzMusicPoetryBlues (Music)Jazz -- PoetryAmerican poetryAfrican Americans

Genres

  • Poetry

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