Duende

Poems, 1966-Now

Duende
Quincy Troupe
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25 Jan 2022 US
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9781644210468
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The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis. The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis. Quincy Troupe writes poetry in great waves. The words are just notes. It' s the music you make with them that matters. He' s not a wordsmith, he' s a shaman conjuring long repetitive lines, cadences of looking across the sea towards Africa and haunted by the legacy of slavery and racism, or of remembering fellow conjurers, poets and musical artists, celebrating, always celebrating, but never only that.
In the fifty-page, incantatory poem, "Ghost Voices," there is a longing to be reconnected to the past, and a longing too to be free of it. In the short title poem, "Duende- For Garcia Lorca and Miles Davis," there lies, nakedly, Troupe' s credo- ". . . secrets, mystery infused in black magic / that enters bodies in forms of music, art/ poetry imbuing language with sovereignty / in blood spooling back through violent centuries. . . " The version of the great poem "Avalanche (number 3)" that appears here is different from the version of the same poem he published nearly 25 years ago--in exactly the same way that a jazz artist picks up his horn to play the same song a little differently every time.
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ISBN-13: 9781644210468
Published: 25 Jan 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Seven Stories Press (US)
Publisher: Seven Stories Press (US)
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 496

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