{"product_id":"duende-isbn-9781644210451","title":"Duende","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuincy 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. \u003cbr\u003eIn 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 García 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.\u003cbr\u003eTroupe is a generous and gregarious poet in this giant offering that includes many new poems, as well as a selection chosen from across his eleven previously published volumes. What's remarkable is the constancy, the energy, and how he's always looking right at you in the here and now, and at the same time sees something over your shoulder that others don't see yet, maybe a distant storm gathering over the waters, something we're going to need to rise up and face soon enough.\"Quincy Troupe is a hoodoo soothsayer of poetry whose iconic riffs peal across each page as they peel back layers of America's history.  Reader—open this hefty \u003ci\u003eDuende\u003c\/i\u003e potion of Jazz and sweat with caution, 'cause the swagger of each line might just drown you to save your life.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTyehimba Jess\u003c\/b\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOlio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"In this career-spanning collection, you don’t just read Quincy Troupe’s poetry: You are lifted by his word. You ride syllables and sound and glory. You grasp articulated root-working, know that you are traveling with mastery, the 'tongue’s edge, high-strung, at edge of the cliff.' That’s right. You understand there is no end to this man's brilliance.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eHonorée Fanonne Jeffers\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Hallelujah! There’s a hot new book from the peerless Quincy Troupe. Beyond his masterwork, \u003ci\u003ePursuit of Happyness\u003c\/i\u003e, and his classic memoir on Miles Davis, Troupe has been celebrated for decades as a poet whose range enlarges the heart. \u003ci\u003eDuende\u003c\/i\u003e is this year’s comprehensive, must-read collection. Don’t miss the party.\" \u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Karr\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Liar's Club\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTropic of Squalor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quincy Troupe’s \u003ci\u003eDuende\u003c\/i\u003e is a 'must have' collection of this poetry icon’s lifetime’s output of poetic truth telling, spell casting, melodic improvising, record keeping, tonal shape shifting, and spirit reckoning. And much more.\"  \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMichael Lally\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Back when Quincy and I taught poetry writing in prisons on Riker’s Island, he was already not 'first person I' but 'eye' as he appears here in Duende, in these blazing, unshackled, resounding poems. In other words, ego is checked by all that is beheld, all that the eye sees, condemns and celebrates in nonstop enumeration. This is pure imaginative freedom, this is poetry that can never be locked up or denied — it is music made by the eye and heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCarol Muske-Dukes\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eDuende is an exuberant, full scale, magical tour through a life well-lived! Quincy’s mesmerizing rhythms and dazzling images nourish heart, mind and soul! I love this book!\" \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e —\u003cb\u003eMarilyn Chin\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eQuincy Troupe may be the only American poet to have co-written two bestselling autobiographies, one of which, \u003ci\u003eMiles: The Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered a milestone of contemporary jazz biography. With a career that has lasted 50 years, his greatest contribution is to American poetry, from his first collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eEmbryo\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), \u003ci\u003eSnake-Black Solos\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003eSkulls Along the River\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), and \u003ci\u003eWeather Reports\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) to the many books he published with Coffee House Press including \u003ci\u003eAvalanche\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eChoruses\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eTranscircularities \u003c\/i\u003e(2002, winner of the 2003 Milt Kessler Poetry Award and selected by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the ten best poetry books of 2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Language \u003c\/i\u003e(2006, winner of the 2007 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement), and \u003ci\u003eErrancities\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) to the most recent, \u003ci\u003eGhost Voices\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eSeduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). Troupe is also a biographer, journalist, professor, spoken word performer with noted jazz artists, alumnus of the Watts Writers Workshop, associated with the Black Arts Movement, former California poet laureate, children's book author, and magazine editor of \u003ci\u003eBlack Renaissance\/Renaissance Noir\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Happyness\u003c\/i\u003e, which spent over 40 weeks on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list, and was made into a major motion picture starring Will Smith. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMiles \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir of his friendship with Miles Davis (Seven Stories Press), soon to be a major motion picture co-produced by Denzel Washington. He lives in Harlem with his wife, Margaret Porter Troupe, an arts curator and educator.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887121658085,"sku":"NP9781644210451","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644210451.jpg?v=1767725752","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/duende-isbn-9781644210451","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}