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Outlandish Blues: 150 Years of Opera, Concert and Ballet in Montevideo by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

rtwilliams16's review

4.0

Very good poetry collection, many of them centered around women's blues especially their relationship with bad men. Jeffers biblical poems are amazing, she puts the blues in the mouths of women characters from the Bible such as Lot's wife, Sarah, Hagar. The title poem "Outlandish Blues" challenges how American slavery is portrayed in film, for example not showing children on slave ships, money changing hands between white enslavers and African traders, and the original religious traditions of enslaved Africans before they were introduced to Christianity.

Favorite poems: "The Battered Blues"; "The Wife of Lot Has a Premonition of Her Death"; "Sarah Confronts Abraham Over Hagar"; "Hagar in the Wilderness"; "Outlandish Blues"; "Aretha at Fame Studios".

jerseyfemme's review

inspiring fast-paced

4.0

The Wife of Lot After the Fire had me like 😳🤯🥵. Sis can WRITE!