{"product_id":"duende-poems-1966-now-hardcover","title":"Duende: Poems, 1966-Now - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eQuincy Troupe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQuincy Troupe writes poetry in great waves. The words are just notes. It's the music you make with them that matters. He's not a wordsmith, he's a shaman conjuring long repetitive lines, cadences of looking across the sea towards Africa and haunted by the legacy of slavery and racism, or of remembering fellow conjurers, poets and musical artists, celebrating, always celebrating, but never only that. \u003cbr\u003eIn the fifty-page, incantatory poem, \"Ghost Voices,\" there is a longing to be reconnected to the past, and a longing too to be free of it. In the short title poem, \"Duende: For García Lorca and Miles Davis,\" there lies, nakedly, Troupe's credo: \"...secrets, mystery infused in black magic \/ that enters bodies in forms of music, art\/ poetry imbuing language with sovereignty \/ in blood spooling back through violent centuries...\" The version of the great poem \"Avalanche (number 3)\" that appears here is different from the version of the same poem he published nearly 25 years ago--in exactly the same way that a jazz artist picks up his horn to play the same song a little differently every time.\u003cbr\u003eTroupe is a generous and gregarious poet in this giant offering that includes many new poems, as well as a selection chosen from across his eleven previously published volumes. What's remarkable is the constancy, the energy, and how he's always looking right at you in the here and now, and at the same time sees something over your shoulder that others don't see yet, maybe a distant storm gathering over the waters, something we're going to need to rise up and face soon enough.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuincy Troupe may be the only American poet to have co-written two bestselling autobiographies, one of which, \u003ci\u003eMiles: The Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered a milestone of contemporary jazz biography. With a career that has lasted 50 years, his greatest contribution is to American poetry, from his first collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eEmbryo\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), \u003ci\u003eSnake-Black Solos\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003eSkulls Along the River\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), and \u003ci\u003eWeather Reports\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) to the many books he published with Coffee House Press including \u003ci\u003eAvalanche\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eChoruses\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eTranscircularities \u003c\/i\u003e(2002, winner of the 2003 Milt Kessler Poetry Award and selected by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the ten best poetry books of 2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Language \u003c\/i\u003e(2006, winner of the 2007 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement), and \u003ci\u003eErrancities\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) to the most recent, \u003ci\u003eGhost Voices\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eSeduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). Troupe is also a biographer, journalist, professor, spoken word performer with noted jazz artists, alumnus of the Watts Writers Workshop, associated with the Black Arts Movement, former California poet laureate, children's book author, and magazine editor of \u003ci\u003eBlack Renaissance\/Renaissance Noir\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Happyness\u003c\/i\u003e, which spent over 40 weeks on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list, and was made into a major motion picture starring Will Smith. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMiles \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir of his friendship with Miles Davis (Seven Stories Press), soon to be a major motion picture co-produced by Denzel Washington. He lives in Harlem with his wife, Margaret Porter Troupe, an arts curator and educator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.2 x 9.4 x 7.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2022)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768683102496,"sku":"9781644210451","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8a622a26f63be3a24153d786cc5ce79b_a2f0008f-899c-4db0-b7ed-372fa07a1744.webp?v=1780335181","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/duende-poems-1966-now-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}