Second Set, Vol. 2 Book

Preface Ai - Archangel; The Man with the Saxophone Samuel Allen - I Say, Mr. A.
Baron James Ashanti - Just Another Gig Alvin Aubert - Bessie; Bessie Smith’s Funeral Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Tobacco Warehouse Blues; Of Walter White’s Father in the Rain Dorothy Barresi - Venice Beach: Brief Song Paul Beatty - Sitting on Other People’s Cars John Berryman - Dream Song 68
Gwendolyn Brooks - Queen of the Blues; The Sundays of Satin-legs Smith; The Third Sermon on the Warpland Arthur Brown - The Assassination of Charlie Parker; Callin Buddy Bolden Christopher Buckley - Nostalgia; Playing for Time Michael Castro - Blew It Richard Cecil - Richard’s Blues Karen Chase - What You Can’t See Jane Cooper - Wanda’s Blues Hart Crane - For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen Stanley Crouch - The Revelation; Up On the Spoon E. E. Cummings - [god pity me whom(god distinctly has)]
James Cushing - Autumn Leaves; Every Time We Say Goodbye; Love Man Robert Dana - Elegy for the Duke Frank Marshall Davis - Jazz Band Thulani N. Davis - C. T. at the 5 Spot; C. T.’s Variation; Rogue & Jar Diane Di Prima - I Ching; Notes on the Art of Memory Mark Doty - Almost Blue Rita Dove - Canary Henry Dumas - Concentration Camp Blues; Listen to the Sound of My Horn Cornelius Eady - Hank Mobley’s; Jazz Dancer James A. Emanuel - Get Up, Blues Martín Espada - Majeski Plays the Saxophone; Shaking Hands with Mongo; Dándole la mano a Mongo Dave Etter - Monk’s Dream; Stuffy Turkey; Well You Needn’t Mari Evans - Boss Communication Sarah Webster Fabio - For Louis Armstrong, A Ju-Ju Sascha Feinstein - Christmas Eve; Sonnets for Stan Gage (1945–1992)
William Ford - Of Miles Davis Nikki Giovanni - Genie in a Jar Matthew Graham - After the War: When Coltrane Only Wanted to Play Dance Tunes Sam Greenlee - Memorial for Trane Joy Harjo - Bird; Healing Animal; Strange Fruit Michael S. Harper - Bandstand; A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Ply By Himself Sean Harvey - The Mighty Tropicale Orchestra Joe Heithaus - What A Little Moonlight Can Do David Henderson - Elvin Jones Gretsch Freak; Lee Morgan DeBose Heyward - Jasbo Brown Edward Hirsch - Art Pepper Anselm Hollo - Le Jazz Hot Richard Hugo - My Buddy Lynda Hull - Lost Fugue for Chet; Ornithology T. R. Hummer - Poem In the Shape of a Saxophone Angela Jackson - Billie in Silk; Make/n My Music; Ohnedaruth Richard Jackson - Shadows David Jauss - AFter the End of the World; Black Orchid Lance Jeffers - How High the Moon; Nina Simone June Jordan - October 23, 1983
Allison Joseph - My Father’s Heroes Robert Kelly - Newark; Ode to Language Keorapetse Kgositsile - Acknowledgement; For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Yusef Komunyakaa - Speed Ball; Twilight Seduction Oliver Lagrone - I Heard the Byrd Vachel Lindsay - The Jazz of This Hotel Doughtry Long - Black Love Black Hope [Section 13]; Black Love Black Hope [Section 20]
Michael Longley - Words for Jazz Perhaps Thomas Lux - Night Above the Town Naomi Long Madgett - Echoes; Plea for My Heart’s Sake Haki Madhubutti - Don’t Cry, Scream; Knocking Donkey Fleas Off a Poet from Southside Chi Rick Madigan - Curtis Fuller; Stereo Time with Booker Little William Matthews - The Buddy Bolden Cylinder; Mingus At the Showplace Kenneth May - Valentine’s Day Michael McClure - For Monk Thomas McGrath - Guiffre’s Nightmusic; Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub James McKean - Fater Listening to Jack Teagarden...
Sandra McPherson - The Ability to Make a Face like a Spider While Singing Blues: Junior Wells; Some Metaphysics of Junior Wells; Suspension: Junior Wells on a Small stage in a Converted Barn David Meltzer - 17:II:82; 18:VI:82
Adrian Mitchell - From Rich Uneasy America to My Friend Christopher Logue Ernst Moerman - Louis Armstrong [translated by Samuel beckett]
Amus Mor - The Coming of John Larry Neal - Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork-Pie Hat; Lady’s Days Mwatabu Okantah - Afreeka Brass; Southern Road Ron Overton - Blues in"C"
Raymond R. Patterson - Hopping Toad Blues; Sundown Blues Useni Eugene Perkins - Boss Buitar; Jazz Poem Dudley Randall - Langston Blues Eugene B. Redmond - Distance David Rivard - Baby Vallejo Conrad Kent Rivers - Underground Jeremy Robson - Blues for the Lonely Carolyn M. Rodgers - We Dance Like Ella Riffs; Written for Love of an Ascension—Coltrane Muriel Rukeyser - Bunk Johnson Blowing; Homage to Literature Sadiq - Tuskegee Experiment Ntozake Shange - Elegance in the Extreme Charles Simic - Crepescule With Nellie Ralph Sneeden - Coltrane and My Father A. B. Spellman - Did John’s Music Kill Him; John Coltrane Lorenzo Thomas - Historiography Askia Muhammad Touré - JuJu; O Lord of Light! A Mystic Sage Returns to Realms of Eternity Derek Walcott - Blues; The Glory Trumpeter Barry Wallenstein - Blues 1; Blues 2
Belle Waring - Refuge at the One Step Down Tom Weatherly - Mud River Shango; Times Ron Welburn - Ben Webster: "Did You Call Her Today?"; Bones and Drums; Gonsalves Miller Williams - The Death of Chet Baker David Wojahn - John Berryman Listening to Robert Johnson’s "King of the Delta Blues," January 1972
Baron Wormser - It’s a Party (1959)
Jay Wright - The End of an Ethnic Dream Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Saints of Jazz; Satchmo Al Young - Dance of the Infidels; Lester Leaps In Paul Zimmer - But Bird; Sitting With Lester

Biographical Notes and Statements of Poetics Music Appendix Acknowledgments