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Over the last 15 years, something recognizable as jazz literature has become an institutional academic fact. Four faculty members elected to american academy of arts. As mackeys work did not appear in book form until the mid1980s, some might insist that he is a. Inaugural poems to the resistance dispatches editionsspuyten duyvil, 2017. Project muse early jazz literature and why you didnt know. He edits the journal hambone and coedited, with art lange, the anthology moments notice. Song of the andoumboulou 1625, a cd recording of poems read with musical accompaniment, was released in 1995. New jazz poets, broadside, 1967 black poets iv, pacifica tape library, 1973. His honors include the national book award for poetry, the stephen henderson award from the african american literature and culture society, a guggenheim fellowship, the ruth. The first collection of jazz literature to combine poetry and prose in one volume, this is the definitive anthology for jazz lovers and scholars alike. He has edited the avantgarde literary journal hambone for more than 15 years, and coedited moment s notice.
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