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     Afamcenter First Time Poster Username: Afamcenter Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2007 Rating: N/A |
Join us when California Poet Laureate Al Young introduces his new book Something About the Blues at the San Francisco Main Library. Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Young will read from his new collection, which he recently told the Berkeley Daily Planet includes “poems and prose poems centered around blues and jazz themes in particular. There are a lot of new and some older pieces in the book, which Source Books asked me to put together. Those themes run so heavily through everything I write, it was like shooting fi sh in a barrel.” The collection includes an audio book with both solo readings and readings backed by a band, including saxophonist Ralph Jones, Detroit pianist Kenn Cox, Edwin Livingston on bass and Charles Eisenstadt on drums, performing at CalArts to an audience of high school students. Young’s reading—at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 in the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Public Library—is presented by the Main’s African American Center, and will be followed by a book sale and signing. 100 Larkin St. San Francisco, CA For more information call: 415-557-4277 http://sfpl.org/news/foreveryoung.htm |
