These essays on poetry by one of the foremost poet-critics of our time reveal a lifelong dedication to social radicalism and cultural responsibility and to the profound conviction that poetry is a path to enlightenment.
This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarily to jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute more intelligently than others to our practical and moral, political and social, advancement."
Musings and revelations about poetry, jazz, and the rocky course of one poet's life.
"For at least two decades Hayden Carruth has been a poet of the first quality... a writer so well endowed with character, courage, stamina, honesty, and independence as to make whatever styles he has adopted or adapted peculiarly his own." - R.W. Flint, Parnassus
