<Span><span><span>To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">how </span><span>Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempt…
"Jazz Griots studies how four representative African American poets of the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra's David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement's Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and …
To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about <span style=""font-style:italic;"">how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, <span style=…