|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BIRD LIVES': CHARLES PARKER IN ST. LOUIS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet's Biography
First Line: Last on legs, last on sax
Last Line: Bird lives! Bird lives! And you do: %dead
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955)
First Line: Last on legs, last on sax
Last Line: Bird lives! Bird lives! And you do: %dead
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955)
Other Poems of Interest...
JUST ANOTHER GIG FOR CHARLIE PARKER by BARON JAMES ASHANTI
ASSASSINATION OF CHARLIE PARKER by ARTHUR BROWN
REQUIEM FOR 'BIRD' PARKER, MUSICIAN by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO
BIRD, THE BIRD, THE BIRD by ROBERT CREELEY
UP ON THE SPOON by STANLEY CROUCH
YARDBIRD'S SKULL by OWEN DODSON
HORIZONTAL COSMOLOGY: 4. SAXOPHONE by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT
ROUND MIDNIGHT by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS
ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED by MICHAEL S. HARPER
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM MARION REEDY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS