http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xxix, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.