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His poetry mixes the rhythms of jazz music with \"hand grenades\" of truth, and his live reading performance style anticipated the spoken word movement.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlack Pow-Wow\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of the best of Joans' early poetry, including such well-known poems as \"Jazz Is My Religion,\" \"Passed On Blues: Homage to a Poet,\" and \"The Nice Colored Man.\" Many of his poems speak to his friends and contemporaries--including Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, and particularly Langston Hughes--as well as his extensive travels across the African continent and around the world. His avante-garde poems also reflect his style as a painter and collage artist, call for social protest, and denounce racism, sexual repression, and injustice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This groundbreaking collection, one of only two mainstream publications Joans produced, perfectly captures the pulse of the Beat Generation and the rhythms of blues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50209265516817,"sku":"GOR002952461","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007766135057,"sku":"NIN9780809000937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51804181266705,"sku":"CIN0809000938G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51844472439057,"sku":"GOR006674186","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53063844692241,"sku":"CIN0809000938VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53610790584593,"sku":"GOR006785143","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B000HDKE5G.jpg?v=1750702998"},{"product_id":"teducation-book-ted-joans-9781566890915","title":"Teducation","description":"Black Dues  Black Blues  Black News , Ted Joans trumpets in his tribute to Langston Hughes. What Library Journal wrote in 1969 holds true today: This collection of his work clearly reveals the influence of Langston Hughes, his mentor and friend. Joans, however, has the harsher and more strident tone necessary to accurately reflect today's society. As he says in one poem: 'We must fall in love and glorify our beautiful black nation \/ We must create black images \/ give the world \/ a black education.'\u003cp\u003eOne of the first black poets to become involved in surrealism and a first generation Beat, Joans is an expatriate poet whose work is enjoying renewed interest. This major collection of poems written during the past forty years is a significant contribution to American letters. \u003ci\u003eTeducation\u003c\/i\u003e is the first single-volume collection representing the life's work of Joans, a once roommate of Charlie Parker and a contemporary of Allen Ginsberg and Bob Kaufman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnergetic African American Beat poet, surrealist painter, longtime Paris-based expatriate, African traveler, jazz expert and jazz musician, the versatile 71-year old Joans (\u003ci\u003eBlack Pow Wow Jazz Poems\u003c\/i\u003e) has published 35 books, but never, till now, a selected. Joans's rakish, unsatisfiable sensibility can make his work in Beat modes as technically innovative as Burroughs, as polemically exhuberant as Ginsberg and as comic as Corso. His early work, like theirs, depends heavily on surrealist modes; The rhino roam in the bedroom\/ where the lovely virgin wait\/ the owl eats a Baptist bat\/ adn God almighty is too late. The masterful longer Timbuktu Tit Tat Toe packs a few hundred years of Black America's relationship to aftica into four pages of giddy declamation. Likke Amiri Baraka (who lauds Joans's verse), Joans came to enbrace an aesthetic of people's poetry, creating exhuberant forms to meet his needs, stirring the pot with neologism and slogan, and calling on an arsenal of heroes from Malcom X to Jean-Michael Basquiat. And Then There Were None locates political rage in Louis Armstrong's famous grin: you tried to turn him into your 'musical golliwog doll'\/ you wanted his trumpet to blow what you said so\/ you misinterpreted his wide smile. 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