jazz poetry
jazz poetry,a genre presaged in the USA by ( Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay ( 1879 – 1931 ) with his incantatory ballads ‘General William Booth’ ( 1913 ), ‘The Congo’ ( 1914 ), The Daniel Jazz ( 1920 ), etc.; and then by ( James) Langston Hughes ( 1902 – 67 ), who was probably the first to pitch his verse in conjunction with musicians in the late 1930s. The fusion was developed in the 1950s by Kenneth Patchen ( 1911 – 72 ), Kenneth Rexroth ( 1905 – 82 ), Amiri Baraka (adopted name of black militant writer Everett Le Roi Jones , 1934 – ), and the poets of the American Beat Generation ; and in Britain from the mid-1950s to the 1980s by C. Logue , Roy Fisher ( 1930 – ), Michael Horovitz , Pete Brown ( 1940 – ), Spike Hawkins ( 1942 – ), and others. Various permutations of primarily non-academic, often regional, entertainers and singer-songwriters have...
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