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Every book or broadside for which we have an image has its own page here. See the bibliography for a more complete listing of publications.

The Truth

The Truth
Title: The Truth
Place: Sacramento, CA
Publisher: 24th Street Irregular Press
Year: 2001
The Truth – Poems for All #2. Cover #1, February 2001.… [...continue...]

Lost and Found: In Thursday Sane

Lost and Found: In Thursday Sane

Title: Lost and Found: In Thursday Sane
Place: Davis, CA
Publisher: Swan Scythe Press
Year: 2001
ISBN: 1-930454-13-9

Sandra McPherson purchased a copy of Amos Tutuola’s novel “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” in a used bookshop.… [...continue...]

Our Thang

Our Thang
Title: Our Thang: Several Poems, Several Drawings
Poems by Ted Joans; Drawings by Laura Corsiglia
Place: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Year: 2001
ISBN: 1-894800-00-1

From the back cover:

Our Thang presents the extraordinary jazz-poems of the legendary poet-artist-trumpeter Ted Joans alongside the surrealistic drawings of Canadian artist, Laura Corsiglia.… [...continue...]

Teducation: Selected Poems

Teducation: Selected Poems
Title: Teducation: Selected Poems
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Year: 1999
ISBN: ISBN 978-1-56689-091-5

Gerald Nicosia wrote the insightful introduction to this book, which features illustrations by Heriberto Cogollo.… [...continue...]

WOW

WOW
Title: WOW
Place: Mukilteo, WA
Publisher: Quicksilver/Quartermoon Press
Year: 1999

Published in an edition of 350 copies, this collection contains many previously unpublished poems.… [...continue...]

Okapi Passion

Okapi Passion
Title: Okapi Passion
Place: Berkeley, CA
Publisher: Ishmael Reed Publishing Co.
Year: 1994
ISBNr: 0-918408-28-8

Twenty-eight pages, and published by fellow poet Ishmael Reed, this slender volume features one of Ted’s collages on the cover.… [...continue...]

Double Trouble

Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble: Poems
Author: Ted Joans and Hart Leroy Bibbs with a preface by James Emanuel
Place: Paris
Publisher: Editions Bleu Outremer–Revue Noire
Year: 1992
ISBN: 2-909571-009

Two books in one: The 119-page book features Ted’s work up to page 56; the latter half belongs to Bibbs.… [...continue...]

Some Sum of Surrealist Poems

Some Sum of Surrealist Poems
Title: Some Sum of Surrealist Poems
Place: Toronto
Publisher: Letters Books
Year: 1987

This book was published in an edition of only twenty copies.… [...continue...]

Dies Und Das

Dies Und Das
Title: Dies Und Das: Ein Magazin von actuellem surrealistischen Interesse.
Place: West Berlin
Publisher: Ted Joans
Year: 1984

The first and only issue of “Dies und Das,” published by Ted, was the first German Surrealist magazine.… [...continue...]

New Duck Butter Poems

New Duck Butter Poems
Title: Old and New Duck Butter Poems
Place: Paris
Publisher: Handshake Editions
Year: 1982

There were three editions of this book.… [...continue...]

A Few Poems

A Few Poems
Title: A Few Poems
Poems by Ted Joans; Drawings by Laura Corsiglia
Place: Lome, Togo
Year: 1981

This was published in a limited edition of 200 copies.… [...continue...]

The Truth (broadside)

The Truth (broadside)
Title: The Truth
Place: New York City
Publisher: Dikko Faust, Center for Book Arts
Year: 1978

image courtesy of Trilby & Co.… [...continue...]

Flying Piranha

Flying Piranha
Title: Flying Piranha
with poet Joyce Mansour
Place: New York
Publisher: Bola Press
Year: 1978

This book is a collaboration between Ted and Joyce Mansour.… [...continue...]

Free-For-All

Free-For-All
Title: Free-For-All
Place: [Fort Lee, NJ]
Publisher:
Year: 1978
ISBN: 0931772028 / 9780931772023

This 16-page collaborative book features 4 collages by John Digby, with poems by Ted Joans, Valery Oisteanu, and Bill Wolak.… [...continue...]

Poète de Jazz

Poète de Jazz
Title: Poète de Jazz
Place: Dakar, Senegal
Publisher: Centre Culturel Americain
Year: ca. 1978
photo courtesy of William Reese Co.

Poète de Jazz is 12 pages, stapled into pictorial wrappers.… [...continue...]

Cogollo Caniculaire

Cogollo Caniculaire
Title: Cogollo Caniculaire
Author: Ted Joans with artist Heriberto Cogollo and poet Joyce Mansour
Place: Rome
Publisher: Carlo Bestetti
Year: 1977

Seven litho-engravings.… [...continue...]

A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose

A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose
Title: A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose
Place: London
Publisher: Calder & Boyars
Year: 1971

From the back cover:
“This volume is evidence of some of the many talents of Ted Joans, painter, poet, jazzman.… [...continue...]

Santa Claws

Santa Claws
Title: Santa Claws
Place: London
Publisher: The Turret Bookshop
Year: [1970]
image courtesy Cult Jones.

“Santa Claws” was published by Bernard Stone’s The Turret Bookshop as a folded holiday greeting card.… [...continue...]

(check) proposition pour un manifeste du pouvoir noir

(check) proposition pour un manifeste du pouvoir noir
Title: proposition pour un manifeste du pouvoir noir: BLACK POWER
Place: Paris
Publisher: Editions Losfeld
Year: 1969

Published in Paris by Eric Losfeld, and translated by Jeannine Ciment and Robert Benayoun, this is a French translation of A black manifesto in jazz poetry and prose , which was published in 1971 in English by Calder & Boyars.… [...continue...]

The Hipsters

The Hipsters
Title: The Hipsters
Place: New York
Publisher: Corinth Book distributed by The Citadel Press
Year: 1961

From the cover:

The funny, wild, hilarious and witty world of the hipsters from Greenwich Village to Paris.… [...continue...]

Beat Funky Jazz Poems

Beat Funky Jazz Poems
Title: Beat Funky Jazz Poems
Place: New York
Publisher: Rhino Review
Year: 1959

Illustrated with black-and-white images. There has often been confusion about the title; it is sometimes referred to as Beat Jazz Poems or Funky Jazz Poems.… [...continue...]

"Jazz is my religion, and Surrealism is my point of view." —Ted Joans

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