Synopsis
The best and newest from one of American poetry’s coolest rhythm masters.
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.
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About the Author
Featured in two PBS poetry series, Quincy Troupe is the author of seven volumes of poetry including Transcircularities and most recently, Errançities. In addition to chronicling his friendship with Miles Davis in Miles and Me, Troupe has recently published children’s books on Magic Johnson and Stevie Wonder. He is also the winner of two American Book Awards, a Peabody Award, and the title of World Heavyweight Champion Poet. He divides his time between New York and a countryside village in Guadeloupe.
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A multi-award-winning veteran of performance poetry and of the printed page, California's first official poet laureate demonstrates his ebullient and undimmed powers in this capacious selection from his eight previous books of verse. Troupe (Weather Reports, etc.) got his start in the late-'60s heyday of the Black Arts movement, and that era's focus on speech rhythms and syncopations bore fruit in Troupe's striking early poems: "the kids of chicago have eyes that are older/ than the deepest pain in the world." Throughout his career Troupe has paid close attention to jazz, eventually penning two books of prose about Miles Davis; his verse returns continually to swing, bebop and free-jazz giants, imitating, commemorating or praising Coltrane, Duke, Bud Powell and others in a series of musicianly poems culminating in the recent "Back to the Dream Time: Miles Speaks from the Dead." Troupe's forms, driven by performability, range from ecstatic odes to overtly political expostulations. Recurrent topics include the poet's extended family; the nature of poetry as performance and praise; and the poet's sense of particular U.S. locales, from the Manhattan of early work to the California coast that provides the occasion for his most joyful new poems. Other new work continues Troupe's success in familiar modes of praise and prophecy. A memorial to an admired painter praises his "new kind of visual, tribal language,/ archaic & new, aural"; quips and rants describe "the way some crazed white people have attacked/ the entire world," while the extended meditation "9/11 Emergency Calls Coming into Manhattan" shows "what terror really is, really feels like, is the dread you are thinking of now."
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