The Second Set, Vol. 2 The Jazz Poetry Anthology [Paperback]

With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry. The Second Set gathers many poets omitted from The Jazz Poetry Anthology, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane di Prima, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Anselm Hollo, Haki Madhubuti, Michael McClure, Larry Neal, Dudley Randall, Eugene B. Redmond, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Ntozake Shange, A. B. Spellman, and Jay Wright. The Second Set fills out the history of jazz poetry with poems written before World War II, as well as those from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, and includes contemporary writers from a range of cultural backgrounds, including Ai, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mart?n Espada, Joy Harjo, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michael Longley, Mwatabu Okantah, Charles Simic, Lorenzo Thomas, Derek Walcott, Ron Welburn, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Embracing a wide variety of poems informed by jazz, The Second Set also includes statements of poetics by many of the poets anthologized.

Selected Table of Contents
Ai - Archangel; The Man with the Saxophone
Samuel Allen - I Say, Mr. A.
Baron James Ashanti - Just Another Gig
Alvin Aubert - Bessie; Bessie Smiths Funeral
Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Tobacco Warehouse Blues; Of Walter Whites Father in the Rain
Paul Beatty - Sitting on Other Peoples Cars
John Berryman - Dream Song 68
Gwendolyn Brooks - Queen of the Blues; The Sundays of Satin-legs Smith; The Third Sermon on the Warpland
Arthur Brown - The Assassination of Charlie Parker; Callin Buddy Bolden
Christopher Buckley - Nostalgia; Playing for Time
Michael Castro - Blew It
Richard Cecil - Richards Blues
Karen Chase - What You Cant See
Jane Cooper - Wandas Blues
Hart Crane - For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen
Stanley Crouch - The Revelation; Up On the Spoon
E. E. Cummings - [god pity me whom(god distinctly has)]
Thulani N. Davis - C. T. at the 5 Spot; C. T.s Variation; Rogul£¡