Jazz Poems by Kevin Young
A vital and surprising hardcover collection of poems about, and inspired by, jazz music. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Selected and Edited by Kevin Young.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.
Includes:
* "Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret" by Langston Hughes
* "God Bless the Child" by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.
* "Jazz Fantasia" by Carl Sandburg
* "Ol' Bunk's Band" by William Carlos Williams
* "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
* "Chasing the Bird" by Robert Creeley
* "Victrola" by Robert Pinsky
* "Pres Spoke in a Language" by Amiri Baraka
* "The Day Lady Died" by Frank O'Hara
* "Art Pepper" by Edward Hirsch
* "Snow" by Billy Collins
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Kevin Young's first book, Most Way Home, was chosen for the National Poetry Series and received the Ploughshares Zacharis First Book Award. His second collection of poems, To Repel Ghosts, a double album based on the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's work, was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Prize. Young's work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and Callaloo. He is the editor of the anthologies Giant Steps: The Next Generation of African American Writers and Blues Poetry, both published by Everyman's Library Pocket Poet. Young is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University and a former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781400042517 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400042518 |
| Title | Jazz Poems |
| Author | Kevin Young |
| Series | Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2006-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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