Jazz Poems

Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had an influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a collection of jazz poems. Fr...

Reducere. Jazz is my religion, and surrealism is my point of view. Ted Joans was one of the first Beat poets in the Greenwich Village arts scene, pioneering ...

Reducere. The poems in under the aegis of a winged mind are inspired by the life and times of the jazz composer and pianist Earl "Bud" Powell. Powell was a l...

Reducere. Turn It Up Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from La...

This smash-hit picture book of jazz music poems, from award-winning father-don team Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers, is now available in pa...

Reducere. A new collection of poems from the American author, poet, and playwright Ishmael Reed.The poems in this new collection from Ishmael Reed were writt...

Reducere. Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_awardIn these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot t...

Reducere. The Art of Expression in Poetry: A Book of Short Poems, A-Z is a compilation of fifty-three poems derived from experiences and knowledge obtained d...

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Reducere. Poetry. IL VIRUS brings together 113 poems written over seventy-eight days during the spring 2020 pandemic lockdown in Toronto. These responses to ...

Reducere. Life Line (Seven Tensions) 13: 02Sensorium 4: 17Kairos 8: 56S.H.A.R.D.S. 9: 11Shake Down 6: 40Clear Monolith 10: 46Luminous Brew 8: 17Meshwork / Li...

Reducere. Poetry. The latest collection from prolific American poet Clark Coolidge, who has often been associated with the Language School and the New York S...

Reducere. Poems that address interpersonal connections while navigating life and care amid disease and disaster. Collaboration runs through the heart of this...

Reducere. DescriptionLike nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabul...

Reducere. Kaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charle...

Reducere. With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black ...

Reducere. A collection of Songs, Poems and Writings of the reclusive 60's Folk Singer, Jazz Interpreter, and "Song Stylist" Karen Dalton. Includes the songs ...

Reducere. ``These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems--self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brent Hayes EdwardsIn 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy, " one of the best-known compositions o...

Reducere. "Leaving Saturn, " chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through b...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rita DoveAn occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On ...

Reducere. Dan Patterson has his own voice: controlled, thoughtful and imbued with a kind of sad wisdom. He writes poems for himself and the seclusive reader ...

Reducere. First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war wit...

DescriptionMachi Tawara's first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It...

Reducere. The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gav...

Of the Land presents a series of prints and poems that follow the life and work of master silkscreen printer Lou Stovall as he was developing his u...

This powerful collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves, with his characteristic allusiveness, intelligence, and intensity, into an age of war...

Reducere. Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from lighthearted self-depreca...

Reducere. DescriptionSoaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African Americ...

Reducere. No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distin...

Reducere. Romanul Lorelei este un roman de exceptie. Prezinta povestea de dragoste dintre Lucica Novleanu (Luli, Lorelei) si Catul Bogdan. Desi la prima lect...

Reducere. Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table , the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the er...

DescriptionLove is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya's debut poetry collection, twisting its way through devotion, sacrifice, and bliss. Seeking...

Reducere. The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 20...

Reducere. Pardon My Heart is an exploration of love in the contemporary African American consciousness. Marcus Jackson's poetry examines the heritage of the ...

Reducere. The River in the Belly is the collection only Mujila could write, blending musical lyricism, legend, and theology from Africa and Europe; from the ...

Reducere. This beloved poem by Langston Hughes, illustrated by the award-winning Sean Qualls, is an irresistible celebration of the love between mother and b...

Reducere. While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of po...

Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, includ...

Reducere. Patti Smith is one of pop culture's true originals. The 1975 release of her debut album Horses signalled the start of a career full of passionate c...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. There is, it seems, an invisible question mark behind AMERICA'S FAVORITE POEM. What is it, who writes it? J...

Reducere. These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that w...

Now in paperback: essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand...

Reducere. DescriptionBoris Vian is a rare phenomenon. Nothing short of a national treasure in France, he is hardly known overseas. In his lifetime, he divide...

Reducere. Born to be an outsider because of a rare genetic disorder, Kallmann syndrome, Brian Brett lived an androgynous childhood of abuse and sexual harass...