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

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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...]

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

Published in an edition of 350 copies, this collection contains many previously unpublished poems.… [...continue...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Printed by Dikko Faust on October 30, 1978, this broadside of Ted’s signature poem measures 4.5 x 6.5 inches.… [...continue...]

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

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

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

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

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

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...]

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

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...]