The jazz poetry anthology / edited by Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feinstein, Sascha, 1963-

Komunyakaa, Yusef.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Poetry.

Jazz.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Jazz poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Vol. 2 has title: Second set

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1991-©1996.

Summary:

With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensiveexploration of the history of jazz poetry. The Second Set gathers many poets omittedfrom The Jazz Poetry Anthology, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane diPrima, 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 historyof jazz poetry with poems written before World War II, as well as those from theBlack Arts Movement of the 1960s, and includes contemporary writers from a range ofcultural backgrounds, including Ai, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mart n Espada, JoyHarjo, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael Longley, Mwatabu Okantah, Charles Simic, Lorenzo Thomas, Derek Walcott, Ron Welburn, and YevgenyYevtushenko. Embracing a wide variety of poems informed by jazz, The Second Set also includes statements of poetics by many of the poetsanthologized.

Contents:

v. 1 [without special title]

v. 2. The second set.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Jazz poetry anthology.

ISBN:

0253321638

9780253321633

0253206375

9780253206374

025333053X

9780253330536

0253210682

9780253210685

OCLC:

22345390