Synopses & Reviews
From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everymans Library Pocket Poets set has it all. Theres something for everyone to enjoy in this 75-volume set, from
Animal Poems to
Zen Poems. Each book comes in an elegant 256-page pocket-sized hardcover edition (4 1/8" x 6 1/4"), with full-cloth covers, lovely illustrated and jewel-tone jackets, silk ribbon markers, and gold stamping. Perfect for your home library, or as a gift for any occasion.
This set includes one each of the following titles:
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry edited by Peter Washington
Animal Poems edited by John Hollander
Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Auden: Poems by W. H. Auden
Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire
Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Blake: Poems by William Blake
Blues Poems edited by Kevin Young
Browning: Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Byron: Poems by Lord Byron, G. Gordon
Chinese Erotic Poems edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Christmas Poems edited by Peter Washington
Coleridge: Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Comic Poems edited by Peter Washington
Conversation Pieces by Kurt Brown
The Dance edited by Emily Fragos
Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson
Doggerel edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Donne: Poems by John Donne
Eliot: Poems by T. S. Eliot
Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte
Erotic Poems edited by Peter Washington
Eugene Onegin and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin
Fatherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Friendship Poems edited by Peter Washington
Frost: Poems by Robert Frost
Garden Poems edited by John Hollander
The Great Cat edited by Emily Fragos
Haiku edited by Peter Washington
Hardy: Poems by Thomas Hardy
Herbert: Poems by George Herbert
Hopkins: Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes
Indian Love Poems edited by Meena Alexander
Jazz Poems edited by Kevin Young
Keats: Poems by John Keats
Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling
Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love Letters edited by Peter Washington
Love Poems edited by Peter Washington
Love Songs and Sonnets edited by Peter Washington
Love Speaks Its Name by J. D. McClatchy
Lullabies and Poems for Children edited by Diana Secker Larson
Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander
Marvell: Poems by Andrew Marvell
Milton: Poems by John Milton
Motherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru
On Wings of Song by J. D. McClatchy
Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington
Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath
Poe: Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
Poems Bewitched and Haunted edited by John Hollander
Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poems by Robert Burns
Poems of Mourning edited by Peter Washington
Poems of New York edited by Elizabeth Schmidt
Poems of Sleep and Dreams edited by Peter Washington
Poems of the American West edited by Robert Mezey
Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy
Prayers edited by Peter Washington
Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rimbaud: Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
The Roman Poets edited by Peter Washington
Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
Shakespeare: Poems by William Shakespeart
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Sonnets edited by John Hollander
Stevens: Poems by Wallace Stevens
Tennyson: Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson
War Poems edited by Peter Washington
Whitman: Poems by Walt Whitman
Wordsworth: Poems by William Wordsworth
Zen Poems edited by Peter Harris
Everymans Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everymans Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.
Synopsis
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 OHara, 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 jazzs 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.
Synopsis
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 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.
Includes:
- "Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret" by Langston Hughes
- "God Bless the Child" by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.
- "Jazz Fantasia" by Carl Sandburg
- "Ol' Bunk's Band" by William Carlos Williams
- "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
- "Chasing the Bird" by Robert Creeley
- "Victrola" by Robert Pinsky
- "Pres Spoke in a Language" by Amiri Baraka
- "The Day Lady Died" by Frank O'Hara
- "Art Pepper" by Edward Hirsch
- "Snow" by Billy Collins
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Synopsis
Since its inception in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them. Includes poems by Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, and Gwendolyn Brooks. High school & older.
About the Author
Kevin Young is the author of three previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of Americas
John Berryman: Selected Poems, Everymans 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 Youngs Jelly Roll is available in Knopf paperback.
Table of Contents
ForewordVAMPING (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 Bunks 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
Yardbirds 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)
Parkers 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, Syeedas 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)
Dont 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 OClock 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
Gyres 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 Im Wild For
FRANK O'HARA
The Day Lady Died
RITA DOVE
Canary
LAWON FUSAO INADA
The Journey
List of Authors
Acknowledgments