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Black Pow-Wow

By: Ted Joans

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Jazz is my religion, and surrealism is my point of view." Ted Joans was one of the first Beat poets in the Greenwich Village arts scene, pioneering a movement that often overlooked his profound contributions. His poetry mixes the rhythms of jazz music with “hand grenades” of truth, and his live reading performance style anticipated the spoken word movement. Black Pow-Wow is a collection of the best of Joans’ early poetry, including such well-known poems as “Jazz Is My Religion,” “Passed On Blues: Homage to a Poet,” and “The Nice Colored Man.” Many of his poems speak to his friends and contemporaries--including Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, and particularly Langston Hughes--as well as his extensive travels across the African continent and around the world. His avante-garde poems also reflect his style as a painter and collage artist, call for social protest, and denounce racism, sexual repression, and injustice. This groundbreaking collection, one of only two mainstream publications Joans produced, perfectly captures the pulse of the Beat Generation and the rhythms of blues.

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Macmillan

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0809000938

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9780809000937

Our Thang

Several Poems, Several Drawings

By: Ted Joans

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Our Thang

Several Poems, Several Drawings

By: Ted Joans

Our Thang presents the extraordinary jazz-poems of the legendary Ted Joans alongside the surrealist drawings of Laura Corsiglia. The poems are characterized by black consciousness, strong rhythms and a musical sensibility closely linked to blues and avant-garde jazz.

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100

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Ekstasis Editions

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1894800001

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9781894800006

Black Pow-Wow

By: Ted Joans

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Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

By: Ted Morgan

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Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

By: Ted Morgan

“Almost indecently readable . . . captures [Burroughs’s] destructive energy, his ferocious pessimism, and the renegade brilliance of his style.”—Vogue With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs’s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex—and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends—Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them—in this riveting story of an iconoclast.

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753

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393343243

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9780393343243

Call Me Ted

By: Turner Ted Burke Bill

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Call Me Ted

By: Turner Ted Burke Bill

The great American maverick of our time releases his long-awaited memoir, revealing his lonely childhood, the devastating loss of his father, intimate details of his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his unparalleled success as a businessman and philanthropist.

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0446594563

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9780446594561

Call Me Ted

By: Ted Turner,Bill Burke

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By: Ted Turner,Bill Burke

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1607512874

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Black Pow-Wow

Black Pow-Wow

Our Thang

Our Thang

Black Pow-Wow

Black Pow-Wow

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Call Me Ted

Call Me Ted

Call Me Ted

Call Me Ted

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