Dirty Bird Blues (1996)

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Imprint: Mercury House (May 01, 1996)
Poetry, Hardcover, 279 pages
Publisher: Mercury House
ISBN: 9781562790837
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    The acclaimed author of Such Was the Season and Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang tells the story of Manfred Banks, a Chicago blues musician and blue-collar worker who drifts from Chicago to Omaha in the 1950s, struggling with domestic responsibilities and a racist America that assaults him at every turn.
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