Transcircularities : new and selected poems / by Quincy Troupe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troupe, Quincy.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Troupe, Quincy (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

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

Physical Description:

352 pages ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributor, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, [2002]

Summary:

Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Quincy Troupe's award-winning poetry is pure rhythm and deep bass beats that barely stay on the page. This magnificent new volume captures Troupe's voice stronger than ever as he issues celebratory and pointed statements on jazz, sports, love, art, literature, American life, and the sublimity of it all.

Winner of a Peabody and two American Book Awards, Quincy Troupe has published several books of poetry and two bestselling books about Miles Davis. He is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego.

Contents:

1 Early Poems, 1967

1969

Ode to John Coitrane 3

Poem for Friends 9

For Maicoim, who Waiks in the Eyes of our Children 14

2 From Embryo, 1971

Come Sing A Song 19

South African Bloodstone 20

Profittn, A Rap/Poem 21

Midtown Traffic 24

Chicago 26

The Syntax of the Mind Grips 28

Weather Report in Lincoln Nebraska 2/8/71 30

White Weekend 31

Wokf up Crying the Biufs 32

Vision 34

In Texas Grass 37

Three for the Biafran war 38

In Seventy-Five Syllables 39

In the Manner of Rabearivello 40

Dream Poem/Song 41

Rain/Time 43

Dream/Dance 45

Birds Fty Without Motion to the Summit 46

Beneath the Bluest Sea 47

Embryo 48

3 From Snake-Back Solos, 1979

Ash Doors & Juju Guitars 53

Up Sun South of Alaska: A Short African American History Song 54

These Crossings, These Words 57

Snake-Song Slithering Towards Evel 59

New York City Beggar 62

After Hearing a Radio Announcement 64

Steel Poles Give Back no Sweat 65

Snow & Ice 67

A Surrealistic Poem to Everyone & No one in Particular 68

From Richmond College, Postmarked

Manhattan 70

The Old People Speak of Death 73

Legon, Ghana, After Dark 75

Ghanaian Song

Image 77

Igbobi Night 78

Memory 79

Out Here Where 79

It is Not 80

In a Silence of Bells 82

In Memory of Bunchy Carter 83

The Other Night 84

Flying Kites 85

Transformation 86

Fireflies 86

The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1984 87

Four, and More 89

Snake-Black Solo 93

Poem for Skunder Boghassian, Painter 96

Collage 97

My Poems Have Holes Sewn into Them 98

4 From Skulls Along the River, 1984

Skulls Along the River 103

South Central Vandenter Street Rundown 111

River Town Packin House Blues 112

Poem for My Brother Timmy 116

Old Black Ladies on Bus Stop Corners 118

River Rhythm Town 121

St. Louis Neighborhood 123

Whose Death Is This Walking 125

The Sky Empties Down Ice 126

Haiioween Parade in Greenwich Village, 1978 127

Eighth Avenue Poem 131

Poem for Lady Day & Dinah Washington 132

Image 133

Riff 133

Impressions 3 134

Impressions 8 135

Impressions 12 137

Impressions 15 138

Just Cruisin & Writin 139

Meeting 140

Hariem Tate Night Lyric 141

The Day Strides There on the Wind 142

Memos & Buttons 143

Poem Reaching Towards Something 144

Tas Cruces, New Mexico 146

It All Bolls Down 148

116th Street & Park Avenue 150

A Poem for "Magic" 152

Ieon Thomas at the Tin Palace 154

Untitled 3 156

Male Springtime Ritual 157

Eye Throw My Rope Tongue Into the Sky 159

A Thought for You, Margaret 160

A Poem for Ojenke & K. Curtis Lyle 161

Southern Lyric; Ritual 163

Conjuring Against Allen Spirits 164

Passing on the Legacy 166

New York City Stream Poem 168

At the End 170

5 From Weather Reports, 1991

Perennial Ritual 173

Boomerang: a Blatantly Political Poem 175

Les Cayes, Haiti & Religions on Parade: 1984 178

In Jimmy's Garden 180

In Memoriam 182

Avalanche Aftermath 184

Porter, at 18 Months 185

Change 186

Simple Joys 187

Eye Walk 188

Tout de Meme

Nice & Malibu 188

21 Lines to Carnot, Guadeiouplan Master Drummer 189

Poem for My Father 190

Poem for the Root Doctor of Rock N Roil 192

Reflections on Growing Older 194

Falling Down Roads of Sleep 195

Untitled 196

Following the North Star Boogaloo 197

6 From Avalanche, 1996

The Sound, Breaking Away 203

Watch out for Sound Bites & Spin Doctors 205

A Response to All You "Angry White Males" 206

Eye Change Dreams 209

Slippin' & Slidin' over Syllables for Fun with Some Politics Thrown in on the Side 212

& Syllables Grow Wings there 214

Looking at Both Sides of a Question 215

One for Charite Mingus 217

Reflections 218

Collage 222

Avalanche 225

Let's Say You are Who 228

The Absoluteness of Seconds 231

Borders: Improvisations on a Theme 232

Untitled 245

Chuckanut Drive, South of Bellingham, Washington 245

San Juan Island Image 245

Back to the Dream Time: Miles Speaks from the Dead 246

La Jolia 247

The Flip Side of Time 248

Flight 249

Stiliness 250

Birth form: Tercetina 251

The View from Skates in Berkeley 252

7 From Choruses, 1999

Song 257

Sestina for 39 Silent Angels 258

Forty-one Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Sait Iake City, Utah 260

Can You Chain Your Voice to a River? 261

Gray Day in January in La Jolia 265

Time Line of Breath & Music 267

Two for the Piano Players at the Spruce Streft Forum 269

Synchronicity in Bologna, Itaiy 272

Sighting Birds at the Beach 275

Mother 277

Jerez De La Frontera 279

The Point Loma Poems: Written for the Wastewater Management Project 282

The Point Loma Series of Haikus & Tankas 289

Your Lover's Eyes Speak 291

Come Closer 292

Broken in Parts: a Healing Song for Saxophone & Voicf 293

Bells 298

Choruses 300

Words That Build Bridges Toward a New Tonguf 305

8 New Poems, 2000

2001

In Remembrance of You, Italo 313

Builetin from the Idiot Tube 317

Random Mishaps 318

Fiying Predators 320

9/11 Emergency Calls Coming Into Manhattan 321

Moving Toward the Open, the Light 327

Reconfigurations 329

Fragmented Soios, Patterns, & Textures; Other Worlds; the Paintings of Philip Taafe 331

Puise & Breathe 334

What the Poetic Line Holds 335

One Summer View; in Port Townsend, Washington 336

Spring Day in La Jolla; 2000 338

Fast Lane 340

Memory, As a Circle 342

Shades of Blue for a Blue Bridge 344

Transcircuiarities 346.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

ISBN:

1566891353

156689137X

OCLC:

49799303