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Prez: Homage to Lester Young

By Jaimie Reid

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Paperback:

9780889821293 | New edition (Oolichan Books, December 20, 2006), cover price $14.95

Jazz Poems

A compelling treasury of poetry inspired by the aethetic principles of jazz music and its performers captures the rhythms and energy of jazz in the workds of Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Frank O'Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ntozake Shange, and C. D. Wright. 12,500 first printing.

By Kevin Young (editor)

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9781400042517 | Everymans Library, April 11, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A treasury of poetry inspired by the aethetic principles of jazz music and its performers captures the rhythms and energy of jazz in the words of such authors as Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Simic, andRita Dove.

9781841597546 | Gardners Books, March 2, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Language Of Saxophones: Selected Poems Of Kamu Daaood

Collects poems from four decades of Kamau Daâaood's work, in which jazz music is a recurring theme.

By Kamau Daaood

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9780872864412 | City Lights Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Collects poems from four decades of Kamau Daâaood's work, in which jazz music is a recurring theme.

No Wrong Notes

By Norman Weinstein

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9780923389710 | Spuyten Duyvil, January 1, 2005, cover price $10.00

Velvet Be-Bop Kente Cloth

Offers a collection of poems celebrating African American identity and the energy and rhythm of jazz.

By Sterling D. Plumpp

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Hardcover:

9780883782422 | Third World Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of poems celebrating African American identity and the energy and rhythm of jazz.

Smoke: A Jazz Novel in Verse

By Paul Estaver

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Hardcover:

9780773434745 | Edwin Mellen Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $39.95

Hitting the Bricks

By Peter Trower

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9781896860220 | Ekstasis Editions, November 1, 2002, cover price $12.95

Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems, 1977-2002

Product Description: Poetry. African American. "Along with his mentor Langston Hughes, Banks is one of the few poets who can claim a true fusion of the spoken word with the blues-music form" --John Mark Eberhart, The Kansas City Star. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stanley Banks and Ethelbert E. Miller (foreword by)

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9781886157361 | Bkmk Pr/Umkc, June 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

Jazz Fan Looks Back

Product Description: Poetry. African American Studies. "If you haven't read Jayne Cortez you're missing some of the best that life has to offer. Here is always a compelling voice of fire and freedom. Her surrealism-the hottest on record. If you think you're a revolutionary, read Jayne Cortez and you'll be ten times more revolutionary"-Franklin Rosemont, Surrealism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jayne Cortez

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9781931236102 | Hanging Loose Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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9781931236096 | Hanging Loose Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.00

Playing the Word: Jazz Poems

Product Description: Poetry. "Dan Jaffe's celebration of jazz is so vivid and passionate I could hear the tunes and see the smoke. It was 3 a.m. and I had no thought of going home until the last note was played. This book is a great work of love" --James Tate.

By Dan Jaffe

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9781886157347 | Bkmk Pr/Umkc, November 1, 2001, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

Blues for Bird

Product Description: Blues for Bird is Martin Gray's stunning, one-of-a-kind biography of Charlie Parker. Written entirely in trimeter, Gray's epic biographical poem runs some 5,400 lines. The work chronicles the life of one of the twentieth century's most pivotal musical figures, from his humble beginnings in Kansas City through his pioneering of the breakthrough musical form of "bebop" to his early tragic death in the Park Avenue apartment of a European Countess...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Martin Gray

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9781891661204 | Santa Monica Pr Llc, October 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Blues for Bird is Martin Gray's stunning, one-of-a-kind biography of Charlie Parker.

9780921215646 | Ekstasis Editions, November 1, 1983, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Blues for Bird is Martin Gray's stunning, one-of-a-kind biography of Charlie Parker.

Our Thang: Several Poems, Several Drawings

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By Laura Corsiglia and Ted Joans

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9781894800006 | Ekstasis Editions, September 1, 2001, cover price $15.95

Ghost Notes

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By Ralph Burns

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9780932440884 | Oberlin College Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $14.95

Live Evil: A Homage to Miles Davis

By Richard Stevenson

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9781894345088 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, November 1, 2000, cover price $12.95

No Eyes: Lester Young

Product Description: In 1959, at the age of fifty, tenor man Lester Young a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. David Meltzer's latest book is a poetic meditation on the last year of Young's life, a year of joyful playing and self-willed dying, of creation and negation...read more

By David Meltzer

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9781574231304 | Black Sparrow Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Offers a series of poems inspired by the life and death of Lester Young, a tenor saxophonist who was a member of Count Basie's band, accompanied Billie Holiday, and influenced the development of both bebop and post-bop cool jazz.

9781574231311 | Signed edition (Black Sparrow Pr, May 1, 2000), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In 1959, at the age of fifty, tenor man Lester Young a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan.

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9781574231298 | Black Sparrow Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Offers a series of poems inspired by the life and death of Lester Young, a tenor saxophonist who was a member of Count Basie's band, accompanied Billie Holiday, and influenced the development of both bebop and post-bop cool jazz.

Misterioso: Poems

By Sascha Feinstein

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Hardcover:

9781556591457 | Copper Canyon Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.00

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9781556591365 | Copper Canyon Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.00

Who Bop?

When the cat, dog, and mouse come together on the stage, they make wild sounds for the attendees of the local sock hop in this lively tale picture book with full color illustrations.

By Henry Cole (illustrator) and Jonathan London

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9780060279172 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hip hares and cool cats dance to the swinging music of Jazz-bo's saxophone.

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9780060279189 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Hip hares and cool cats dance to the swinging music of Jazz-bo's saxophone.

Buddy Bolden of New Orleans: A Jazz Poem

Product Description: Book by Bisso, Ray

By ray Bisso

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9781564742681 | Fithian Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Book by Bisso, Ray

Ornate With Smoke

Product Description: Poetry that comes out of the jazz music of African American artists.

By Sterling Plumpp

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9780883781937 | Third World Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Poetry that comes out of the jazz music of African American artists.

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9780883781982 | Third World Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $12.95

Yardbird Suite: Side One : 1920-1940

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By Bill Harris

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9780870134357 | Michigan State Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $14.95

The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology,

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sascha Feinstein (editor) and Yusef Komunyakaa (editor)

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9780253330536 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry.

Does It Swing?

By Elliott Levin

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9781884773037 | Heat Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $9.95

The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology

By Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa (editor) and S. H. Coleman Memorial Library (corporate author)

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9780253210685 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $22.00

9789990248630 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $4.36 | also contains The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology

Hail Madam Jazz: New and Selected Poems

Product Description: Deemed the best poetry book of 1992 by London's Sunday Tribune, this includes 'The Middle Voice', the whole of his acclaimed sequence 'The Chosen Garden', and selections from five other books.

By Micheal O'Siadhail

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9781852242251 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, September 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Deemed the best poetry book of 1992 by London's Sunday Tribune, this includes `The Middle Voice', the whole of his acclaimed sequence `The Chosen Garden', and selections from five other books.

Paperback:

9781852242084 | Dufour Editions, September 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Deemed the best poetry book of 1992 by London's Sunday Tribune, this includes 'The Middle Voice', the whole of his acclaimed sequence 'The Chosen Garden', and selections from five other books.

Jazz Poetry Anthology

By Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780253321633 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $41.95

Paperback:

9780253206374, titled "The Jazz Poetry Anthology" | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $26.00

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