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Since the turn of the century, there have been hundreds of poems responding to jazz in all its musical and cultural overtones. Although many people associate this union only with the poetry and jazz readings of the Beat movement, the range of poetic and jazz anesthetics, not merely from writers across the United States but from countries around the world as well, embraces an enormous, cross-cultural gathering of writers. This anthology represe...

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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. ...

Embraces the entire history of jazz poetry from 1920s racist poems to contemporary poetry, which has changed in tone from elegy to celebration.

Containing over 500 annotated entries for individual poets and several anthologies, this work presents a substantial collection of poems that have been inspired by blues and jazz. Thousands of poems written between 1916 and the present are included. References to individual jazz figures addressed in the poetry are cross-referenced. The range of poems includes homages to jazz musicians and work written primarily to be read with jazz accompanime...

Embraces the entire history of jazz poetry from 1920s racist poems to contemporary poetry, which has changed in tone from elegy to celebration.

This book is about growing up with a father, a superb painter and teacher of art, who found meaning in almost all discarded artifacts. In this memoir Feinstein explores the bizarre thread of creativity and destruction, offering gratitude for an artistic legacy while confronting the physical and emotional wreckage his father left behind.

A gathering of the best jazz fiction from the 1920s to the present, thisanthology includes 20th-century fiction by Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, RichardYates, and others, plus important recent work from writers such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Xu Xi, and Amiri Baraka. Together these artists demonstrate the strong influence ofjazz on fiction. That influence can be felt in prose styles shaped by jazz --freewheeling, dramatic, conversational, improvisato...

A collection of essays by Sascha Feinstein.

Ask Me Now explores the relationship between the language of music andthe music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for discussions on theelusive but engaging relationships between jazz andliterature. Featured artists include central figures of the BlackArts Movemen...

Winner of the first annual Hayden Carruth Emerging Poets Award.