{"product_id":"jazz-poems-hardcover","title":"Jazz Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force--one that \u003ci\u003eJazz Poems \u003c\/i\u003emakes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz's great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Young is the author of three previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of America's \u003ci\u003eJohn Berryman: Selected Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthology \u003ci\u003eBlues Poems, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eJelly Roll: A Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. A recent Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Young is currently Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKevin Young's \u003ci\u003eJelly Roll\u003c\/i\u003e is available in Knopf paperback.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 6.48 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764168589600,"sku":"9781400042517","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2b3e1e052c9ebbac00ddd8955a2e0229.webp?v=1780244606","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/jazz-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}