The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology

Contents

• Selected Table of Contents
• Ai - Archangel; The Man with the Saxophone
• Samuel Allen - I Say, Mr. A.
• Baron James Ashanti - Just Another Gig
• Alvin Aubert - Bessie; Bessie Smith's Funeral
• Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Tobacco Warehouse Blues; Of Walter White's Father in the Rain
• Paul Beatty - Sitting on Other People's Cars
• John Berryman - Dream Song 68
• Gwendolyn Brooks - Queen of the Blues; The Sundays of Satin-legs Smith; The Third Sermon on the Warpland
• Arthur Brown - The Assassination of Charlie Parker; Callin Buddy Bolden
• Christopher Buckley - Nostalgia; Playing for Time
• Michael Castro - Blew It
• Richard Cecil - Richard's Blues
• Karen Chase - What You Can't See
• Jane Cooper - Wanda's Blues
• Hart Crane - For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen
• Stanley Crouch - The Revelation; Up On the Spoon
• E. E. Cummings - [god pity me whom(god distinctly has)]
• Thulani N. Davis - C. T. at the 5 Spot; C. T.'s Variation; Rogue & Jar
• Diane Di Prima - I Ching; Notes on the Art of Memory
• Mark Doty - Almost Blue
• Rita Dove - Canary
• Henry Dumas - Concentration Camp Blues; Listen to the Sound of My Horn
• Dave Etter - Monk's Dream; Stuffy Turkey; Well You Needn't
• Mari Evans - Boss Communication
• Sarah Webster Fabio - For Louis Armstrong, A Ju-Ju
• William Ford - Of Miles Davis
• Nikki Giovanni - Genie in a Jar
• Sam Greenlee - Memorial for Trane
• Joy Harjo - Bird; Healing Animal; Strange Fruit
• Michael S. Harper - Bandstand; A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Ply By Himself
• DeBose Heyward - Jasbo Brown
• Edward Hirsch - Art Pepper
• Richard Hugo - My Buddy
• T. R. Hummer - Poem In the Shape of a Saxophone
• Angela Jackson - Billie in Silk; Make/n My Music; Ohnedaruth
• Richard Jackson - Shadows
• David Jauss - After the End of the World; Black Orchid
• Lance Jeffers - How High the Moon; Nina Simone
• June Jordan - October 23, 1983
• Robert Kelly - Newark; Ode to Language
• Keorapetse Kgositsile - Acknowledgement; For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
• Yusef Komunyakaa - Speed Ball; Twilight Seduction
• Vachel Lindsay - The Jazz of This Hotel
• Naomi Long Madgett - Echoes; Plea for My Heart's Sake
• William Matthews - The Buddy Bolden Cylinder; Mingus At the Showplace
• Michael McClure - For Monk
• Thomas McGrath - Guiffre's Nightmusic; Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub
• James McKean - Fater Listening to Jack Teagarden . . .
• Sandra McPherson - The Ability to Make a Face like a Spider While Singing Blues: Junior Wells; Some Metaphysics of Junior Wells; Suspension: Junior Wells on a Small stage in a Converted Barn
• David Meltzer - 17:II:82; 18:VI:82
• Adrian Mitchell - From Rich Uneasy America to My Friend Christopher Logue
• Mwatabu Okantah - Afreeka Brass; Southern Road
• Ron Overton - Blues in"C"
• Dudley Randall - Langston Blues
• Carolyn M. Rodgers - We Dance Like Ella Riffs; Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane
• Muriel Rukeyser - Bunk Johnson Blowing; Homage to Literature
• Ntozake Shange - Elegance in the Extreme
• Charles Simic - Crepescule With Nellie
• A. B. Spellman - Did John's Music Kill Him; John Coltrane
• Lorenzo Thomas - Historiography
• Askia Muhammad Toure - JuJu; O Lord of Light! A Mystic Sage Returns to Realms of Eternity
• Derek Walcott - Blues; The Glory Trumpeter
• Tom Weatherly - Mud River Shango; Times
• Ron Welburn - Ben Webster: "Did You Call Her Today?"; Bones and Drums; Gonsalves
• Miller Williams - The Death of Chet Baker
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Saints of Jazz; Satchmo
• Al Young - Dance of the Infidels; Lester Leaps In
• Paul Zimmer - But Bird; Sitting With Lester
• Biographical Notes and Statements of Poetics
• Music Appendix
• Acknowledgments