| Jazz Poems Contributor(s): Young, Kevin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1400042518 ISBN-13: 9781400042517 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2006 Annotation: Since its inception in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them. Includes poems by Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, and Gwendolyn Brooks. High school & older. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Poetry | American - General - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.508 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 4.5" W x 6.48" (0.53 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |