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Jazz
Poems
Kevin
Young
(Editor)
Publ.
by
Everyman's
Library.
2006.
(Everyman's
Library
Pocket
Poets
Series).
Small
size
Hardcover.
Dust
jacket.
Ever
since
its
first
flowering,
jazz
has
had
a
powerful
influence
on
American
poetry;
this
scintillating
anthology
offers
a
treasury
of
poems
that
are
as
varied
and
as
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,
William
Matthews,
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.
CONDITION:
couple
of
minor
scuff
marks
and
colour
variation
on
the
dust
jacket.
Otherwise
a
very
good
copy.
Firm
binding.
Clean
pages.
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