Coagulations New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Cortez, Jayne

Poetry

Pluto Press

A collection of the Black author's work

Coagulations: New and Selected Poems

Thunder's Mouth Pr

Coagulations: New and selected poems

Thunder's Mouth Press

Poetic Magnetic

Bola Pr

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Limited Edition. In this special series of eight perfect-bound books, each book is an anthology and a conversation between the guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts. In ELDERS SERIES #7, Cara Benson hosts Jayne Cortez and Anne Waldman.Belladonna* has featured over 150 writers of wildly diverse age and origin, writers who work in conversation and collaboration within and between multiple forms, languages, and critical fields. 2009 marked the tenth anniversary of their mission to promote the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with language. As performance and as printed text, the work collects, gathers over time and space, and forms a kind of conversation about the feminist avant garde: what it is and how it comes to be. The anniversary ELDERS SERIES is a continuation of this conversation, which highlights the fact of influence and continuity of the ideas, poetics, and concerns we circle through.

Elders Series #7 (The Belladonna Elders Series : Belladonna 24)

Waldman, Anne

Benson, Cara

Belladonna*

Poetry
In fact poetry will not strike lightning through any convoy of chickens
Today poems are like flags flying on liquor store roof poems are like baboons waiting to be fed by tourists
&amp; does it matter how many metaphors reach out to you when the sun goes down like a stuffed bird in tropical forest of your solitude
In fact poetry will not sing jazz through constricted mouth of an anteater no matter how many symbols survive to see the moon dying in saw dust of your toenail

Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere (High Risk Books)

SERPENTS TAIL +

Jazz Fan Looks Back

Poetry. African American Studies. "If you haven't read Jayne Cortez you're missing some of the best that life has to offer. Here is always a compelling voice of fire and freedom. Her surrealism-the hottest on record. If you think you're a revolutionary, read Jayne Cortez and you'll be ten times more revolutionary"-Franklin Rosemont, Surrealism. Noted performer and poet Cortez is the author of twelve books of poems, among them Scarification and Mouth on Paper, and has performed her poetry with music on nine recordings. Her awards include the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the International African Festival Award, the American Book Award, and the Langston Hughes Award. Her latest CD recordings with her band The Firespitters are Taking the Blues Back Home and Find Your Voice. "Jayne Cortez understands beter than most how to make spoken words and images swing and rock"-Gene Seymour, Newsday.

Hanging Loose Press

Poetry. African American Studies. "Cortez has been and continues to be an explorer, probing the valleys and chasms of human existence. No ravine is too perilous, no abyss too threatening for Jayne Cortez."—Maya Angelou "If you haven't read Jayne Cortez, you're missing some of the best that life has to offer. A compellingly original voice of fire and freedom."—Franklin Rosemont "Jayne Cortez's poems are filled with images that most of us are afraid to see."—Walter Mosley

On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems

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