Black surrealist : the legend of Ted Joans /
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 o...
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New York :
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2025.
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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.