A compelling treasury of poetry inspired by the aethetic principles of jazz music and its performers captures the rhythms and energy of jazz in the workds of Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Frank O'Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ntozake Shange, and C. D. Wright. 12,500 first printing.