James A. Emanuel (1921 - Present)

James A. Emanuel was born in 1921 in Alliance, Nebraska. His books include Jazz from the Haiku King (1999), Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958–1989 (1990), The Broken Bowl: New and Uncollected Poems (1983), Black Man Abroad: The Toulouse Poems (1978), and At Bay (1969). He is also the author of Langston Hughes (1967) and the editor, with Theodore L. Gross, of Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America (1968). An expatriate African-American, Emanuel lives in Paris.

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First Line	Comments
"Love Supreme,"  JA-A-Z train,	1 Comment
« I sing the LORD'S songs »
A little bit of fool in me	1 Comment
Always searching, may you find;
EVERYTHING is jazz:	3 Comments
Four-letter word JAZZ:
He dug what she said:
I	3 Comments
I fish for words
I hear a whistling	1 Comment
In tight pants, tight skirts,
In town to sell his fruit, he saw her—
Lid's on, steam's risin':
Once Ugly Duckling,
Pin-        La-         SCATS :	1 Comment
Repeatedly, that sturdy stump in me
Satchmo's warm burlap,
Stairstep music: ups,
There ain't NO-BO-DY	3 Comments
To every man
When three, he fished these lakes,