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Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.
Michael Tippett based his guitar sonata, The Blue Guitar (1984), on selected stanzas: 19, 30, and 31, from the poem, [6] and John Banville's 2015 novel The Blue Guitar draws its title and epigraph from the poem. Dean Koontz uses lines from the poem as a password in his 2017 book The Silent Corner.
"The Weary Blues" takes place at an old Harlem bar on Lenox Avenue. There is a piano player playing the blues. As he plays, the speaker observes his body movement and the tone of his voice. Throughout the poem, several literary devices are used to guide the reader through the mixture of emotions the blues player is feeling.
Acoustic blues [9] Barbecue Bob: 1902 1931 Georgia Acoustic blues [10] Ed Bell: 1905 1960s Alabama Piedmont blues [11] Gladys Bentley: 1907 1960 Pennsylvania Vaudeville blues [12] Black Ace: 1905 1972 Texas Country blues [13] Scrapper Blackwell: 1903 1962 North Carolina Urban blues [14] Blind Blake: 1896 1934 Florida Piedmont blues [15] Lucille ...
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
Not long afterwards he produced a three-volume novel, The Aylmers; a second tale, A Legend of Killarney, written during a visit to that part of Ireland; and numerous songs and ballads, which appeared in two volumes, named respectively Loves of the Butterflies and Songs of the Old Château. [1]
His technique resembled that of the surreal school of poets, ranging from a powerful, visionary lyricism of satirical, near dadaistic leanings, to the more prophetic tone that can be found in his political poems." [19] Kaufman said of his own work, "My head is a bony guitar, strung with tongues, plucked by fingers & nails." [20]
Levy and many others have supported Dylan in the context of a larger, older blues and folk tradition of songwriters evolving old songs into new ones, which Dylan was no stranger to in the 1960s. Pete Seeger himself has previously expressed the view that Dylan is a link in this chain of folk and blues songwriters.