Ted Joans

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

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

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

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

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

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Published in an edition of 350 copies, this collection contains many previously unpublished poems.… [...continue...]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

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

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...]

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...]

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...]

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

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

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

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...]

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

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

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

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...]