Jayne Cortez (1936–2012)
Autor de Coagulations: New and Selected Poems
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press
Obras de Jayne Cortez
In A Stream of Ink 1 copia
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In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Contribuidor — 100 copias
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Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
Belladonna Elder Series 7: Cara Benson, Anne Waldman, Jayne Cortez — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Life is a killer [sound recording] — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1936-05-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2012-12-28
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Fort Huachuca, Arizona, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart failure
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Dakar, Senegal
Watts, Los Angeles, California, USA - Ocupaciones
- poet
Activist - Relaciones
- Coleman, Ornette (husband, divorced)
Coleman, Denardo (son)
Edwards, Melvin (husband) - Premios y honores
- American Book Award (1980)
Langston Hughes Award
Miembros
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On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems por Jayne Cortez
If I could use prose to explain to you the mind-blowing, brain-bending power of some of these verses, then we wouldn't need poetry. Some things can't be adequately said in straight-line sentences marching into paragraphs. Some people use movement or music (or painting or poetry) to convey the otherwise unspeakable. Jayne Cortez does that in many of the verses collected here. This is an anthology of sorts, collecting new pieces along with gems from earlier publications dating back to the 1970s. It has inspired me to be sure to go back and read all of those previous books. And again I say that I cannot, other than by sharing the poems themselves, adequately inform you about them. You'll just have to read them yourself. I suggest that you do.… (más)
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- Popularidad
- #157,245
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 15