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Subject: BAKER, CHET (1929-1988)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALMOST BLUE, by MARK DOTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If hart crane played the trumpet
Last Line: And you let to and why not
Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians


ALMOST BLUE, by MARK DOTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If hart crane played the trumpet
Last Line: Breathing in the lindins %and you let go and why not
Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians


ARCHANGEL, by FLORENCE ANTHONY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You stepped through %the van gogh blue curtain
Last Line: As the cool, jazzy, starry night %opened its arms to retrieve you
Alternate Author Name(s): Ai
Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians


CHET'S JAZZ, by RICHARD ELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The jamming together of fragments
Last Line: Us to believe in inspired errors
Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians


DEATH OF CHET BAKER, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere between amazing grace %and great balls of fire we
Last Line: And fell back to earth again. %the body here beneath this stone %was chet baker, who has flown
Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians


LET'S GET LOST, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listening to chet baker
Last Line: Listening to chet baker %all night in the dark
Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Music And Musicians


LOST FUGUE FOR CHET, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single spot slides the trumpet's flare then stops
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


LOST FUGUE FOR CHET, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single spot slides the trumpet's flare then stops
Last Line: Plunge beneath the still green waters of the grand canal
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music And Musicians


SPEED BALL, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Didn't chet baker know
Last Line: Greer, pulled him from that hotel window
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Drugs And Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music And Musicians