Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems (American Century) - Softcover

Joans, Ted

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9780809000937: Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems (American Century)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0809000938 ISBN 13: 9780809000937
Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1976

Synopsis

"Jazz is my religion, and surrealism is my point of view."

Ted Joans was one of the first Beat poets in the Greenwich Village arts scene, pioneering a movement that often overlooked his profound contributions. His poetry mixes the rhythms of jazz music with “hand grenades” of truth, and his live reading performance style anticipated the spoken word movement.

Black Pow-Wow is a collection of the best of Joans’ early poetry, including such well-known poems as “Jazz Is My Religion,” “Passed On Blues: Homage to a Poet,” and “The Nice Colored Man.” Many of his poems speak to his friends and contemporaries--including Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, and particularly Langston Hughes--as well as his extensive travels across the African continent and around the world. His avante-garde poems also reflect his style as a painter and collage artist, call for social protest, and denounce racism, sexual repression, and injustice.

This groundbreaking collection, one of only two mainstream publications Joans produced, perfectly captures the pulse of the Beat Generation and the rhythms of blues.

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About the Author

Ted Joans (1928-2003) was born in Cairo, Illinois and became a world traveler, a painter, and a trumpet player as well as a jazz poet. Andre Breton, a founder of the American surrealist movement, called him the only Afro-American surrealist. Langston Hughes, whose poetry Joans first read at the age of ten, became his mentor and friend. Joans was a prolific writer who published over 30 books of poetry, including Afrodisia, Okapi Passion, Teducation, and Our Thang. He received an American Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Publication date
1976
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0809000938
ISBN 13 
9780809000937
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
130
Rating
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