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Jazz poems
- Title
- Jazz poems / selected and edited by Kevin Young.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc B 06-32 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Young, Kevin A.
- Description
- 256 p.; 17 cm.
- Summary
- Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force--one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, e.e. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, and C.D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz's great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration.
- Series Statement
- Everyman's library pocket poets
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Boizoi book"--T.p. verso.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Vamping (Early jazz poems) -- Swinging (Jazz origins, New Orleans & Ellingtonia) -- Bop (Bird & beyond) -- Horn section -- Sheets of sound (Coltrane & Co.) -- Rhythm section -- Free jazz -- List of authors -- Acknowledgments.
- Call Number
- JFB 06-116
- ISBN
- 1400042518
- LCCN
- 9781400042517
- OCLC
- 66255389
- Title
- Jazz poems / selected and edited by Kevin Young.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2006.
- Series
- Everyman's library pocket poets
- Added Author
- Young, Kevin A.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781400042517 51250
- Research Call Number
- JFB 06-116Sc B 06-32