[Dixielandjazz] Re:

[Mike Meddings]

Hello Fred,

Thanks for all below.

Yes - I was alerted to this a few weeks back.   Kevin Young's recently 
published collection of poetry, JELLY ROLL: A BLUES, (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) 
has been named one of five finalists for the 2003 National Book Award in 
Poetry as well as the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.

Quoted from the Indiana University website:

A collection of blues-based love poems, JELLY ROLL is being hailed as "a 
versatile tour de force" (Publishers Weekly) and "an impressive collection, 
in which Young uses blues as a template, fusing popular music and black 
vernacular and thereby placing himself squarely in the African-American 
poetic tradition pioneered by such writers as Langston Hughes (Washington 
Post). Jive, boogy-woogy [sic], jitterbug, and ragtime, these sexy and smart 
poems playfully blend African-American idiom with traditional lyric diction 
to capture what Young calls "the spirit of the blues."

Nice to know that Jelly Roll has influences in this field.

Best wishes.

Mike.
  Dear Mike.
  Do you know about a book, entitled "jelly roll.(A BLUES)"? Before you 
become too excited, this is a volume of very modern short poems, many of 
which have jazz titles  (STRIDE PIANO, SWING, RAGTIME, HONKY TONK, BOOGIE 
WOOGIE, etc.), that to me have no, or very little, relevance to jazz.
  Young. Kevin. jelly roll (A BLUES). New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 190 
pp.
  Regards.
  Fred 



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