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  title info:
    title: Black surrealist
    sub title: the legend of Ted Joans
  name:
    name part: Belletto, Steven
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxix, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003) was all of these things, and yet none of these labels adequately capture the beauty and complexity of his life and work. In the over thirty books of poetry and prose he published in his lifetime, Joans makes visible links among key artistic and political movements of the 20th century that are seldom discussed together, including Surrealism, the Beat movement, Pan-Africanism and Black Power. Drawing on interviews and deep archival research, this critical literary biography explores Joans's life as told through these relationships and through his remarkable creative output, which often explored his life and its connections to wider aesthetic and political experiences of the 20th century.
  table of contents: Life as art -- Born swinging -- The mystery of Theodore Jones, Sr. -- Famous in Louisville -- The most celebrated actress in the world -- Inside the magnetic fields -- Home to Harlem -- The world of Langston Hughes -- Babs Gonzales and the origin of "the .38" -- Greenwich Village, experiment in democracy -- The Mau Mau take Manhattan -- Salvador Dalí at the St. Regis -- Meeting Joyce and the Galerie Fantastique -- Bird lives! -- The coming of the Beat Generation -- Coffeehouse connection -- Poet-in-residence at Café Bizarre -- Funky jazz poems -- All of Ted Joans and no more -- If you should see a man ... -- The notorious rent-a-beatnik business -- The hipsters -- André Breton and the seeds of self-exile -- Tangier/Interzone -- "The rhinoceros story" -- Timbuktu Ted -- Grete Moljord -- "Spadework : the autobiography of a hipster" -- Babyshow -- Happenings in Copenhagen -- On the Black Arts Movement and Négritude -- Meeting Malcolm X -- Black cultural guerilla -- A Black man's guide to Africa -- Black pow-wow to Afrodisia -- New doors to surrealism -- Spetrophilia and the Dutch scene -- Le griot surrealiste -- Festac '77 to USIS -- "Deeper are allyall's roots" -- In residence in West Berlin -- Dies und Das : a magazine of contemporary surrealist interest -- The seven sons of Lautréamont -- "Razzle dazzle" -- Teducation films -- Paris, chance-filled paradise -- Jim Haynes, Handshake Press, and Duck butter poems -- Merveilleux Coup de Foudre at Shakespeare and Company -- Laurated coda : atmospheric rivers.
  note: Steven Belletto.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Joans, Ted
  subject:
    topic: African American poets
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    topic: African American authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Beat poetry, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Surrealism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Black Arts movement
  classification: PS3560.O2 Z55 2025
  classification: 811/.54aB
  identifier: 9781501379543
  identifier: 1501379542
  identifier: 9781501379550
  identifier: 1501379550
  identifier: 9781501379567
  identifier: 9781501379574
  identifier: 2024050976
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250106
    record change date: 20251001202404.1
    record identifier: in00005658806