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from: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.819357
EAN: 9780253210685
ISBN: 0253210682
Label: Indiana University Press
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: October 01, 1996
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Sales Rank: 1006144
Studio: Indiana University Press
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Amazon.com Review:
Following up their wonderful jazz poetry anthology, editors Sascha Feinstein and Yusuf Komunyakaa deliver the goods again. Derek Walcott, June Jordan, and Gwendolyn Brooks all weigh in with fine poems, but my favorite this go-round is Rita Dove's 'Canary,' which includes these lines: 'Billie Holiday's burned voice / had as many shadows as lights, / a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano, / the gardenia her signature under that ruined face.' These images tell a lot of the story of jazz as an art form. Life is painful, but music is solace, catharsis, and transcendence. So is poetry.
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