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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... tried to think . When things were bad , he said , he could remember the service for William Williams in New Orleans , how the entire brass had gathered for the long march to Carrolton cemetery- the Eureka Brass Band - with it slow ...
... tried to climb a ladder of light veiled in mist / incessantly vacillating tried to trap that wheezy harmony that solders quarters notes on to our heads and melts down minds like molten lead , ejaculates rhythm , curses prayers , then ...
... Tried to become the earth itself As the shock rolled toward us . But Bird . I sat through three sets , Missed the last train out , Had to bunk in a roach pad , Sleep in my uniform , almost AWOL . But Bird was giving it all away , One of ...
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Houston A Baker | 6 |
The Sundays of SatinLegs Smith | 14 |
The Assassination of Charlie Parker | 20 |
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