Ever 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. From 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 Jazz Poems makes 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…mehr
Ever 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. From 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 Jazz Poems makes 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.
Kevin Young is the author of three previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of America’s John Berryman: Selected Poems, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthology Blues Poems, and Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers. His most recent book, Jelly Roll: A Blues, 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. Kevin Young’s Jelly Roll is available in Knopf paperback.
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Foreword VAMPING (Early Jazz Poems) LANGSTON HUGHES Jazzonia Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret The Cat and the Saxophone (2 a.m.) Trumpet Player CARL SANDBURG Jazz Fantasia HELENE JOHNSON Poem VACHEL LINDSAY The Jazz of This Hotel E. E. CUMMINGS “god pity me whom (god distinctly has)” WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Ol’ Bunk’s Band STERLING A. BROWN Cabaret MAXWELL BODENHEIM Bringing Jazz MURIEL RUKEYSER Homage to Literature FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Jazz Band GWENDOLYN BROOKS We Real Cool SWINGING (Jazz Origins, New Orleans & Ellingtonia) ROBERT SARGENT Touching the Past WILLIAM MATTHEWS The Buddy Bolden Cylinder LUCIEN QUINCY In Praise of Buddy Bolden ANDY RAZAF Black and Blue (What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?) ERNST MOERMAN Louis Armstrong A. B. SPELLMAN “Jelly wrote” HAYDEN CARRUTH The Fantastic Names of Jazz PHILIP LARKIN For Sidney Bechet DANA GIOIA Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931) HAYDEN CARRUTH “Sure,” said Benny Goodman JAYNE CORTZ Rose Solitude BILLY STRAYHORN Lush Life ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Billy Strayhorn Writes “Lush Life” Four Bongos: Take a Train CLARENCE MAJOR The Syncopated Cakewalk NTOZAKE SHANGE Mood Indigo BOP (Bird & Beyond) BOB KAUFMAN War Memoir Walking Parker Home Crootey Songo STERLING D. PLUMPP Eleven from Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth WARING CUNEY Charles Parker, 1920–1955 DAVID LEHMAN May 12 OWEN DODSON Yardbird’s Skull (for Charlie Parker) ROBERT CREELY Chasing the Bird CATHERINE BOWMAN Charlie Parker Birthday Celebration, Tompkins Square Park DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Charlie Parker: Almost Like Being in Love KING PLEASURE (CLARENCE PETERS) Parker’s Mood ROBERT PINSKY Victrola LAWSON FUSAO INADA Filling the Gap HORN SECTION FRANK LONDON Jazz TED JOANS Jazz Is My Religion Lester Young TED BERRIGAN String of Pearls AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) Pres Spoke in a Language AL YOUNG Prez in Paris, 1959 FRANK O'HARA Personal Poem GREGORY CORSO For Miles DARRELL BURTON Blue in Green PATRICIA SPEARS JONES The Blues of This Day KYLE DARGAN Melody Forensic MARK DOTY Almost Blue EDWARD HIRSCH Art Pepper QUINCY TROUPE Snake-Back Solo CHARLES WRIGHT Body and Soul II PAUL BLACKBURN Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five Spot YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA February in Sydney SHEETS OF SOUND (Coltrane & Co.) A. B. SPELLMAN John Coltrane MICHAEL S. HARPER Dear John, Dear Coltrane Here Where Coltrane Is Reuben, Reuben JEAN VALENTINE Coltrane, Syeeda’s Song Flute MATTHEW GRAHAM After the War; When Coltrane Only Wanted to Play Dance Tunes CORNELIUS EADY Alabama, c. 1963: A Ballad by John Coltrane William Carlos Williams SEAN SINGER Photo of John Coltrane, 1963 CALVIN HERNTON Fall Down ETHERIDGE KNIGHT For Eric Dolphy HAKI MADHUBUTI (DON LEE) Don’t Cry, Scream AMIRI BARKA (LEROI JONES) Am/Trak KAMAU BRATHWAITE Trane WILLIAM MATTHEWS Blues for John Coltrane, Dead at 41 PHILIP LEVINE Soloing NATHANIEL MACKEY “John Coltrane Arrived with an Egyptian Lady” RHYTHM SECTION ANGELA BALL Jazz WILLIAM MATTHEWS Mingus at the Showplace Bud Powell, Paris, 1959 PAUL ZIMMER One O’Clock Jump KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers MARTÍN ESPADA Shaking Hands with Mongo YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Copacetic Mingus Elegy for Thelonious CHARLES SIMIC Crepuscule with Nellie BILLY COLLINS Snow WILLIAM CORBETT Thelonious Sphere Monk LAWSON FUSAO INADA Listening Images AL YOUNG Ruby My Dear FREE JAZZ JOHN KEENE Dark to Themselves MAJOR JACKSON Leaving Saturn THULANI DAVIS C.T.’s Variation KENNETH REXROTH from Written to Music HARRYETTE MULLEN Music for Homemade Instruments N. H. PRITCHARD Gyre’s Galax AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) Epistrophe MUTING ( for Billie Holiday) LANGSTON HUGHES Song for Billie Holiday LEWIS ALLEN Strange Fruit BILLIE HOLIDAY and ARTHUR HERZOG, JR. God Bless the Child KEVIN YOUNG Stardust C. D. WRIGHT The Secret Life of Musical Instruments TERRANCE HAYES Lady Sings the Blues TONY HOAGLAND Poem in Which I Make the Mistake of Comparing Billie Holiday to a Cosmic Washerwoman SONIA SANCHEZ For Our Lady JANET M. CHOI What I’m Wild For FRANK O'HARA The Day Lady Died RITA DOVE Canary LAWON FUSAO INADA The Journey List of Authors Acknowledgments
Foreword VAMPING (Early Jazz Poems) LANGSTON HUGHES Jazzonia Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret The Cat and the Saxophone (2 a.m.) Trumpet Player CARL SANDBURG Jazz Fantasia HELENE JOHNSON Poem VACHEL LINDSAY The Jazz of This Hotel E. E. CUMMINGS “god pity me whom (god distinctly has)” WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Ol’ Bunk’s Band STERLING A. BROWN Cabaret MAXWELL BODENHEIM Bringing Jazz MURIEL RUKEYSER Homage to Literature FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Jazz Band GWENDOLYN BROOKS We Real Cool SWINGING (Jazz Origins, New Orleans & Ellingtonia) ROBERT SARGENT Touching the Past WILLIAM MATTHEWS The Buddy Bolden Cylinder LUCIEN QUINCY In Praise of Buddy Bolden ANDY RAZAF Black and Blue (What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?) ERNST MOERMAN Louis Armstrong A. B. SPELLMAN “Jelly wrote” HAYDEN CARRUTH The Fantastic Names of Jazz PHILIP LARKIN For Sidney Bechet DANA GIOIA Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931) HAYDEN CARRUTH “Sure,” said Benny Goodman JAYNE CORTZ Rose Solitude BILLY STRAYHORN Lush Life ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Billy Strayhorn Writes “Lush Life” Four Bongos: Take a Train CLARENCE MAJOR The Syncopated Cakewalk NTOZAKE SHANGE Mood Indigo BOP (Bird & Beyond) BOB KAUFMAN War Memoir Walking Parker Home Crootey Songo STERLING D. PLUMPP Eleven from Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth WARING CUNEY Charles Parker, 1920–1955 DAVID LEHMAN May 12 OWEN DODSON Yardbird’s Skull (for Charlie Parker) ROBERT CREELY Chasing the Bird CATHERINE BOWMAN Charlie Parker Birthday Celebration, Tompkins Square Park DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Charlie Parker: Almost Like Being in Love KING PLEASURE (CLARENCE PETERS) Parker’s Mood ROBERT PINSKY Victrola LAWSON FUSAO INADA Filling the Gap HORN SECTION FRANK LONDON Jazz TED JOANS Jazz Is My Religion Lester Young TED BERRIGAN String of Pearls AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) Pres Spoke in a Language AL YOUNG Prez in Paris, 1959 FRANK O'HARA Personal Poem GREGORY CORSO For Miles DARRELL BURTON Blue in Green PATRICIA SPEARS JONES The Blues of This Day KYLE DARGAN Melody Forensic MARK DOTY Almost Blue EDWARD HIRSCH Art Pepper QUINCY TROUPE Snake-Back Solo CHARLES WRIGHT Body and Soul II PAUL BLACKBURN Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five Spot YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA February in Sydney SHEETS OF SOUND (Coltrane & Co.) A. B. SPELLMAN John Coltrane MICHAEL S. HARPER Dear John, Dear Coltrane Here Where Coltrane Is Reuben, Reuben JEAN VALENTINE Coltrane, Syeeda’s Song Flute MATTHEW GRAHAM After the War; When Coltrane Only Wanted to Play Dance Tunes CORNELIUS EADY Alabama, c. 1963: A Ballad by John Coltrane William Carlos Williams SEAN SINGER Photo of John Coltrane, 1963 CALVIN HERNTON Fall Down ETHERIDGE KNIGHT For Eric Dolphy HAKI MADHUBUTI (DON LEE) Don’t Cry, Scream AMIRI BARKA (LEROI JONES) Am/Trak KAMAU BRATHWAITE Trane WILLIAM MATTHEWS Blues for John Coltrane, Dead at 41 PHILIP LEVINE Soloing NATHANIEL MACKEY “John Coltrane Arrived with an Egyptian Lady” RHYTHM SECTION ANGELA BALL Jazz WILLIAM MATTHEWS Mingus at the Showplace Bud Powell, Paris, 1959 PAUL ZIMMER One O’Clock Jump KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers MARTÍN ESPADA Shaking Hands with Mongo YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Copacetic Mingus Elegy for Thelonious CHARLES SIMIC Crepuscule with Nellie BILLY COLLINS Snow WILLIAM CORBETT Thelonious Sphere Monk LAWSON FUSAO INADA Listening Images AL YOUNG Ruby My Dear FREE JAZZ JOHN KEENE Dark to Themselves MAJOR JACKSON Leaving Saturn THULANI DAVIS C.T.’s Variation KENNETH REXROTH from Written to Music HARRYETTE MULLEN Music for Homemade Instruments N. H. PRITCHARD Gyre’s Galax AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) Epistrophe MUTING ( for Billie Holiday) LANGSTON HUGHES Song for Billie Holiday LEWIS ALLEN Strange Fruit BILLIE HOLIDAY and ARTHUR HERZOG, JR. God Bless the Child KEVIN YOUNG Stardust C. D. WRIGHT The Secret Life of Musical Instruments TERRANCE HAYES Lady Sings the Blues TONY HOAGLAND Poem in Which I Make the Mistake of Comparing Billie Holiday to a Cosmic Washerwoman SONIA SANCHEZ For Our Lady JANET M. CHOI What I’m Wild For FRANK O'HARA The Day Lady Died RITA DOVE Canary LAWON FUSAO INADA The Journey List of Authors Acknowledgments
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