TITLE: Blue Yodel
AUTHOR: Anson Elkins, Cal Phillips (Foreword)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
NO. OF PAGES: 88
GENRE: Poetry, Fiction
DATE READ: January 2015
SYNOPSIS: *from Goodreads*
In this imaginative and haunting debut collection, Ansel Elkins introduces readers to a multitude of characters whose “otherness” has condemned them to live on the margins of society. She weaves blues, ballads, folklore, and storytelling into an intricate tapestry that depicts the violence, poverty, and loneliness of the Deep South, as well as the compassion, generosity, and hope that bring light to people in their darkest times. The blue yodel heard throughout this diverse compilation is a raw, primal, deeply felt expression of the human experience, calling on us to reach out to the isolated and disenfranchised and to find the humanity in every person.
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