Overview

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. Embracing a wide variety of poems informed by jazz, The Second Set also includes statements of poetics by many of the poets anthologized.

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Author:   S H COLEMAN MEML LBRY ,  Sascha Feinstein ,  Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Volume:   Vol. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780253210685

ISBN 10:   0253210682
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   22 October 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Selected Table of Contents Ai - Archangel; The Man with the Saxophone Samuel Allen - I Say, Mr. A. Baron James Ashanti - Just Another Gig Alvin Aubert - Bessie; Bessie Smith's Funeral Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Tobacco Warehouse Blues; Of Walter White's Father in the Rain Paul Beatty - Sitting on Other People's Cars John Berryman - Dream Song 68 Gwendolyn Brooks - Queen of the Blues; The Sundays of Satin-legs Smith; The Third Sermon on the Warpland Arthur Brown - The Assassination of Charlie Parker; Callin Buddy Bolden Christopher Buckley - Nostalgia; Playing for Time Michael Castro - Blew It Richard Cecil - Richard's Blues Karen Chase - What You Can't See Jane Cooper - Wanda's Blues Hart Crane - For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen Stanley Crouch - The Revelation; Up On the Spoon E. E. Cummings - [god pity me whom(god distinctly has)] Thulani N. Davis - C. T. at the 5 Spot; C. T.'s Variation; Rogue & Jar Diane Di Prima - I Ching; Notes on the Art of Memory Mark Doty - Almost Blue Rita Dove - Canary Henry Dumas - Concentration Camp Blues; Listen to the Sound of My Horn Dave Etter - Monk's Dream; Stuffy Turkey; Well You Needn't Mari Evans - Boss Communication Sarah Webster Fabio - For Louis Armstrong, A Ju-Ju William Ford - Of Miles Davis Nikki Giovanni - Genie in a Jar Sam Greenlee - Memorial for Trane Joy Harjo - Bird; Healing Animal; Strange Fruit Michael S. Harper - Bandstand; A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Ply By Himself DeBose Heyward - Jasbo Brown Edward Hirsch - Art Pepper Richard Hugo - My Buddy T. R. Hummer - Poem In the Shape of a Saxophone Angela Jackson - Billie in Silk; Make/n My Music; Ohnedaruth Richard Jackson - Shadows David Jauss - After the End of the World; Black Orchid Lance Jeffers - How High the Moon; Nina Simone June Jordan - October 23, 1983 Robert Kelly - Newark; Ode to Language Keorapetse Kgositsile - Acknowledgement; For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Yusef Komunyakaa - Speed Ball; Twilight Seduction Vachel Lindsay - The Jazz of This Hotel Naomi Long Madgett - Echoes; Plea for My Heart's Sake William Matthews - The Buddy Bolden Cylinder; Mingus At the Showplace Michael McClure - For Monk Thomas McGrath - Guiffre's Nightmusic; Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub James McKean - Fater Listening to Jack Teagarden... Sandra McPherson - The Ability to Make a Face like a Spider While Singing Blues: Junior Wells; Some Metaphysics of Junior Wells; Suspension: Junior Wells on a Small stage in a Converted Barn David Meltzer - 17:II:82; 18:VI:82 Adrian Mitchell - From Rich Uneasy America to My Friend Christopher Logue Mwatabu Okantah - Afreeka Brass; Southern Road Ron Overton - Blues in""C"" Dudley Randall - Langston Blues Carolyn M. Rodgers - We Dance Like Ella Riffs; Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane Muriel Rukeyser - Bunk Johnson Blowing; Homage to Literature Ntozake Shange - Elegance in the Extreme Charles Simic - Crepescule With Nellie A. B. Spellman - Did John's Music Kill Him; John Coltrane Lorenzo Thomas - Historiography Askia Muhammad Toure - JuJu; O Lord of Light! A Mystic Sage Returns to Realms of Eternity Derek Walcott - Blues; The Glory Trumpeter Tom Weatherly - Mud River Shango; Times Ron Welburn - Ben Webster: ""Did You Call Her Today?""; Bones and Drums; Gonsalves Miller Williams - The Death of Chet Baker Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Saints of Jazz; Satchmo Al Young - Dance of the Infidels; Lester Leaps In Paul Zimmer - But Bird; Sitting With Lester Biographical Notes and Statements of Poetics Music Appendix Acknowledgments"

Reviews

"""As an augmentation of 1991's Jazz Poetry Anthology, The Second Set is as impetuous and bent as a Thelonious Monk song ... It should especially please the jazz culture connoisseur. Feinstein and Komunyakaa ... have created an exquisite mix of poetry, history and personal takes on the literary implications of the musical form."" Publishers Weekly ""Amazingly often, a single image in a poem seems to achieve a clarity about the music that entire books fail to achieve. Even if you think poetry isn't your 'bag,' give The Second Set a try. It compels you to hear jazz freshly, from a multitude of new angles."" Pulse! ""This is an anthology to dip into and roam around in, especially when you're listening to the music that served to inspire these poets ... There's much in these pages to seduce aficionados of both jazz and poetry."" Jazz Times ""Recommended for general and academic collections."" Choice"

As an augmentation of 1991's Jazz Poetry Anthology, The Second Set is as impetuous and bent as a Thelonious Monk song ... It should especially please the jazz culture connoisseur. Feinstein and Komunyakaa ... have created an exquisite mix of poetry, history and personal takes on the literary implications of the musical form. Publishers Weekly Amazingly often, a single image in a poem seems to achieve a clarity about the music that entire books fail to achieve. Even if you think poetry isn't your 'bag,' give The Second Set a try. It compels you to hear jazz freshly, from a multitude of new angles. Pulse! This is an anthology to dip into and roam around in, especially when you're listening to the music that served to inspire these poets ... There's much in these pages to seduce aficionados of both jazz and poetry. Jazz Times Recommended for general and academic collections. Choice

Author Information

SASCHA FEINSTEIN teaches creative writing and literature at Lycoming College. He is the author of Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present and A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in Southern Review, New England Review, and North American Review. YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University, has published nine books of poetry: Copacetic, I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, Dien Cai Dau, Magic City, and Neon Vernacular (winner of the Pulitzer Prize).

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