Jazz Poems

by Kevin Young

Book Overview

A vital and surprising hardcover collection of poems about, and inspired by, jazz music. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Selected and Edited by Kevin Young.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400042518
• ISBN13: 9781400042517
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 6.5"