a talk delivered at the Writers Center of the Chautauqua Institution, Week 8, 1997, August 10-17

The Antioch Suite-Jazz by Abba. Elethea, published 1980

Apocalypse Jazz by Maggie Helwig, Oberon Press, May 1993, ISBN: 0887509231

B Flat, Bebop, Scat : Jazz Short Stories and Poems edited by Chris Parker, published 1987

Black Pow-Wow : Jazz Poems by Ted Joans, published 1969

A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry & Prose. Ted Joans
IB 0-7145-0713-X PR Trade Cloth $9.95 paperback, M BoyarsPublishers,1979

Bright Moments: A Collection of Jazz Poetry. by Stephens, Jim. Woessner, Warren. IB 0-932868-03-7 PR Trade Paper ($4.00) Abraxas,1980

Blowing Mouth : The Jazz Poems 1958-1970; Ray Bremser,1978

Cracked Crystal: Jazz Poetry in Three Sets. [Illustrated]

Does It Swing? (Open Mouth Poetry Series) by Elliott Levin Heat Press, November 1996; ISBN: 1884773036

EMBOUCHURE: poems on jazz and other musics by Akua Lezli Hope. Artfarm Press, 1995

Hail Madam Jazz : New and Selected Poems by Michael O'Siadhail Hardcover, 160 pages Published by Dufour Editions Publication date: September 1993 Dimensions (in inches): 8.70 x 5.66 x .67 ISBN: 1852242086 Table of Contents: Sunflower; The Bridge; Of Course; Compliment;Graffiti; Temptation; Regrets; Dispossessed; Season;Sand; Roofing; Circus Rider Work; An Oslo Brewery; Affliction; Friendship; Definition;The Umbrella; A Birthday; Becoming; Approach; Nest; Forebear; Temperament; Salute; Aside;Waiting; Journal;Psalm in the Night; The Patient; An East Wind; Pacifist; Three Charms; Ingebjorg; Ghetto; Aubade; In a New York Shoe-Shop; Expert Editors A Resignation; Springnight; Setting Out; Streetscene; Early Irish Lyric; Fashion Show; Easter; Dun Laoghaire Pier;Wounds; Post-Operative; Birch; Lady at Cocktail Party;After-Image; Send Us E-mail Schoolboy Final; Father; For a Child;Homeward; Late Beethoven Quartet;Elegy for a Singer; Seepage; Thank-You Note; April Soliloquy; Invocation; Morning on Grafton Street; Lunchtime in a London Cafe; Ode to a Juggler; Fly-By; Fathers and Sons; Letters from Assisi; Magellan; Einstein; Homage; Memoir; A Short Biography; A Fall; Meeting; For My Friends; Listening; Scruples; Blues; Somewhere; Rebels; Absence; Loss; Nocturne; Autumn Report; Espousal; Initiation; Icons; Visit; Foster-Figure; Shoulder-High; Fallen Angel; Reverie; Old Wine; A Harsher Light; Youth; Hesitation; Questing; Manhood; Spilling; Reflection; Wanderers; Stranger; Folksong; Coastlines; Leavetaking; Timepiece; In Memoriam Mairtin O Cadhain; Visionary; Dark; History; Belonging; Underworld; Probing; Vision; High Tide; Freedom; Those We Follow; Touchstone; Return; Journeys; Beginnings; A Presence; An Unfolding; Squall; The Other Voice; Out of the Blue; St Brigid's Cross; While You Are Talking; Hindsight; A Circle; Disclosure; Grantchester Meadows; Motet; Train Journey; Kinsmen; Matins; Perspectives; Memory; Child; Three Rock; Arrival; Departure; Voices; Blemish; The Builder's Men; Tradition; Nakedness; A Toast on the Eve; Rondo; Largesse; Wavering; Hands; A Broken Line; Debonair; Feedback; Voyage; Cosmos; Is That?; Welcome; Rhapsody; Between; Summerfest

Hotel Me : Poems for Gil Evans and Others by Ron Overton; Published by Hanging Loose Pr : May 1994 ISBN: 1882413091 Table of Contents: Anita's Dance;Narrative;Bud and Bird; The Altoist; Hotel Me; Real Musicians; Catalogue; Let's Get Lost; Little Wing;Record; Barracuda; I Want You; Zee Zee; I Dream of Billie Holiday; La Nevada; Catching the Trane; Miles Ahead (Miles Apart);After Mingus;Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; O.C.; Who Was George Antheil, and Where?;Paris Blues; Minimal Suite;Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards;Recital;That's Right;Beyond Words; Teen Town;The Branch Will Not Break, But the Jay Might; The Economics of Small Losses; Midnight; Home Movies; Match Point; Larkin; The Acting Program Director Holds a Press Conference to Explain the Death of the Challenger; Shuttle and Seven Aboard in a Fiery Cloud of Snow;Cold Harbor; Blues; A.M.; Last Rites; Four Poems About Distance, in Memory of My Father; Untitled; Lately; Song; CVA; On the Death of Parents; ;Someone Stopped In; Blues in "C"

Inca Blues: Poems & Translations from the Jazz Poetry Ensemble.Sisson, Michael. Vander Does, Michael.
[Illustrated] TN Original Paperback Introduction. EM 9507 IB 0-9633308-0-2 ($6.00 (Retail Price)) PB Pome Tones Pr. DP 199203 PG 56

Jazz Poems. Hollo, Anselm (Editor). EM 9507, IB 0-8023-9048-X PR Trade Paper ($3.50 (Retail Price)) PB Dufour, Pocket Poet Ser., 196301

Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present. Feinstein, Sascha. IB 0-313-29515-8 PR Cloth Text ($59.95 (Retail Price)) PB Greenwood. ST Contributions to the Study of Music & Dance Ser., 199703 IM Greenwood Press PG 216

The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2: The Second Set. ,Feinstein, Sascha, Komunyakaa, Yusef (Editors)
IB 0-253-33053-X, $29.95, Indiana University Press
Jazz Chants for Children : Rhythms of American English Through Chants, Songs and Poems Carolyn Graham paperback,1979

Jazz Text : Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song
by Charles O. Hartman, hardcover,192 pages; Princeton University Press, June 1, 1991; ISBN: 0691068178 List: $37.50 The author, Charles O. Hartman (cohar@conncoll.edu), 08/06/96:
"The poor bookstore owners--what shelf shall they
put it on?This is the only book on AMAZON.COM listed in the
combined categories Jazz, Music and Literature, and 20th Century Poetry. Isn't that odd? Many people (especially the poets themselves) acknowledge that jazz has provided a kind of model for contemporary poets for the past half-century in America; yet the relations between these profoundly American arts is rarely discussed in detail. For that matter, the relation between poetry and song--once a simple identity, later a distant cousinship, but in recent decades an enlarging synergy--has been explored only rarely. The book is lonely; I wish it had company."

Jazz, Women, Soul; Poems of a Black Musician by Jim Marks

Jazzbo Brown from Reston Town: Poems for Moldy Figs: A Jazz Reminiscence. [Illustrated]

Legends from Camp : Poems by Lawson Fusao Inada
paperback, 177 pages; published by Coffeehouse Press, January 1993, ISBN: 1566890047
Table of Contents:Preface; Introduction; Instructions to All Persons; Legends from Camp; Poems from Amache Camp; Concentration Constellation; Looking Back at Camp;Introduction; To Get to Fresno; Finding the Center; Rayford's Song; Sweaty; Listening to Hmong Radio; Seven Words of Poetry;Memory; Introduction;Invocation;Two Variations on a Theme by Thelonious Monk asInspired by Mal Waldron; Listening Images; Louis Armstrong;Lester Young; Billie Holiday; Charlie Parker; Bud Powell; John Coltrane; Recollections;The Theme; Introduction; Appreciating Oregon; A Night in the Valley; My Father and Myself Facing the Sun; At the Stronghold; From Left to Right; Everything; Juxtapositions; Loading Feed in the Grange Parking Lot;The Shovel People; The Journey South; Thelonious Monk in the Redwoods; Turning It Over; A Couple of Geese Over Phoenix; The Discovery of Tradition; In So Doing; Things as They Are; Introduction;Poems in Stone; Akatonbo Song;Headwaters; Poem for Television;On Being Asian American; Something Grand; In the Stillness;Red Earth, Blue Sky, Petrified

Moment's Notice : Jazz in Poetry & Prose; Art Lange, Nathaniel MacKey (editors) Published 1993

Ornate With Smoke by Sterling Plumpp hardcover, published by Third World Press, July 1997 ISBN: 088378193X

Pastoral Jazz by Olga Broumas, paperback, published 1983

The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka : The Jazz Aesthetic by William J. Harris, hardcover, published 1986

Poems from 'Poetry and Jazz in Concert': an anthology
Jeremy Robson

Sitting in : Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and
Related Topics Hayden Carruth, paperback, published 1993

Sassy Jazz & Slo' Draggin' Blues: Music in the Poetry of Langston Hughes. Bonner, Pat E. CN 92-013492 IB 0-8204-1866-8, American University Studies (Vol. Ser. XXIV, Vol. 36)

Songs of the City: Poems of Jazz & Blues.

Viper Jazz (Wesleyan Poetry Program, Vol 82) by James Tate, published 1976



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