Bird/Diz: [An Erased History of Bebop] - Paperback

Bird/Diz: [An Erased History of Bebop] - Paperback

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Bird/Diz: [An Erased History of Bebop] - Paperback
  • Bird/Diz: [An Erased History of Bebop] - Paperback
Bird/Diz: [An Erased History of Bebop] - Paperback

Bird/Diz: [An Erased History of Bebop] - Paperback

$14.56
$14.56

by Warren Longmire (Author)

An innovative new erasure chapbook from Warren C. Longmire, BIRD/DIZ [AN ERASED HISTORY OF BEBOP] navigates the personal and artistic lives of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie through the author's own roving imagination. stages, it strives to find, in the continued disappearance of Black American contributions to world art, the seed of innovation that never dies.

What becomes of a history overwritten, sampled, celebrated and smeared? How do we find creation past erasure? Part new media archive, part visual poetry project, BIRD/DIZ [AN ERASED HISTORY OF BEBOP] is a journey into highs and lows of Black America's first global music export. Taking biographies of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie as a jumping off point, BIRD/DIZ jumps between actual erasures of the written/oral history of Bebop, redacted poems taken from those words, and reflections on historic performances from some of jazz's chief characters. From St. Louis heroin dins to Copenhagen sound

Author Biography

Warren Longmire is a poet, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He's been published in journals including Prolit, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication, Open Source, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press.

Number of Pages: 84
Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: November 15, 2022

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