Teducation: Selected Poems
A selected collection of Ted Joans's poetry gathered from four decades of work. Its forceful wordplay, shaped by Langston Hughes's influence, meets jazz, surrealism, and the Black experience, presenting a singular voice that emerged from the margins of the Beat generation.
Work Information
A definitive volume that gathers four decades of poetry and provocation into one voice.
"Teducation" is the first single-volume selection of Ted Joans's poetry, bringing together representative pieces and previously uncollected work. With clear echoes of Langston Hughes, it foregrounds verbal energy and social urgency, pushing American poetry from the outside in through jazz, survival, and defiance.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Published
- 1999-10-15
- Pages
- 240 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781566890915
- ISBN-10
- 1566890918
- Price
- 3633 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/African American Studies
A much-awaited collection of poems by one of the greatest African American Beat poets. Black Dues! Black Blues! Black News! Ted Joans trumpets in his tribute to Langston Hughes. What Library Journal wrote in 1969 holds true today: This collection of his work clearly reveals the influence of Langston Hughes, his mentor and friend. Joans, however, has the harsher and more strident tone necessary to accurately reflect today’s society. As he says in one poem: “We must fall in love and glorify our beautiful black nation / We must create black images / give the world / a black education.” One of the first black poets to become involved in surrealism and a first generation Beat, Joans is an expatriate poet whose work is enjoying renewed interest. This major collection of poems written during the past forty years is a significant contribution to American letters. Teducation is the first single-volume collection representing the life’s work of Joans, a one-time roommate of Charlie Parker and a contemporary of Allen Ginsberg and Bob Kaufman.
Ted Joans, a painter, trumpet player, jazz poet, and travel writer, is the author of more than thirty-five books, including The Hipsters and Black Pow Wow Jazz Poems. Joans earned a BFA from Indiana University in 1951 and then moved to Greenwich Village, where he was associated with Jack Kerouac and other members of the Beat generation of the 1950s. Joanss discontent with the treatment of blacks in America led him to move abroad, and he spent the next twenty years living summers in Europe and winters in Africa. Despite his absence from the u.s. Literary scene, his work was rediscovered during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Reviews
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Ted Joans and Robert Kauffman are 2 writers that should have more acclaim in the Beat Movement. Two brothers that busted out the joints with rhythms that shattered the walls and ceilings of smoke-filled clubs and bistros drenched in jazz. Joans would be 91 now and this publication covering a 40 year span was published in 1999. Read it and be aroused and awakened.
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From the soul of life comes pain, politics, hardships, racism, poverty these are the certain realities in which we live, the late Ted Joans blows the golden sax of truth in this collection of urban mantras and jazz sutras, read with a chip on your shoulder and you might feel the authors heart beating from the page.
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I enjoyed reading the poetry. I never knew Ted Joans wrote anything beyond "THE NICE COLORED MAN," "SANTA CLAWS," AND "JAZZ MUST BE A WOMAN."