The Second Set, Vol. 2: The Jazz Poetry AnthologySascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa Indiana University Press, 1996 M10 22 - 250 páginas With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry. The Second Set gathers many poets omitted from The Jazz Poetry Anthology, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane di Prima, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Anselm Hollo, Haki Madhubuti, Michael McClure, Larry Neal, Dudley Randall, Eugene B. Redmond, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Ntozake Shange, A. B. Spellman, and Jay Wright. The Second Set fills out the history of jazz poetry with poems written before World War II, as well as those from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, and includes contemporary writers from a range of cultural backgrounds, including Ai, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Martín Espada, Joy Harjo, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael Longley, Mwatabu Okantah, Charles Simic, Lorenzo Thomas, Derek Walcott, Ron Welburn, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. |
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... inside this poem I can't play a horn , hijack a plane to somewhere where music is the place those nerve endings dangle . Each rhapsody embodies counterpoint , and pain stuns the woman in high heels , the man behind the horn , beats the ...
... inside him . Squiggling alto saxophone playing out rickets And jaundice , a mother who tried to kill him In her womb with a coat hanger , a faltering God - like father . The past is a bruised cloud Floating over the houses like a ...
... inside of my being . I could either give in , and become one with it , or I could divide , fight it , and experience personal turmoil . Although I tried mightily , it was not in me to fight against this power . I moved toward the word ...
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Houston A Baker | 6 |
The Sundays of SatinLegs Smith | 14 |
The Assassination of Charlie Parker | 20 |
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