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With these poems devoted to jazz, Dave Oliphant offers a testament to the variety and significance of the art form and its artists. These poems are an attempt to pay homage to the art of jazz and to its musicians, whose lives and performances have long been a source of pleasure, inspiration, and solace.

This collection of short fiction delves into relationships with poignant insights, illuminating realities of living, dying, and innocence set in an idyllic world that can change quickly to become harsh and sad. In these "Almost Stories," characters struggle with life against seemingly impossible odds. They do not always win, but they do not give up.

"Written with knowledge and sympathy, the poem contains a delightful tangle of details. Lyndon Johnson, Elisabet Ney, Peter Flawn, Custer, O. Henry, and Joseph Jones (the sage of Waller Creek)-public figures and personal friends interact in the city of Oliphant's imagination….A lengthy proem, set at the grave of Stephen F. Austin in the State Cemetery, contains a brilliant passage about Austin in prison…. The oblique narration is kept on track with masterful transitions….[T]he language is carefully crafted, with interesting and often beautiful sound-play in virtually every line."-John Herndon, Austin American-Statesman

In this book of poetry, Dave Oliphant examines the Lone Star State from border to border focusing on its history, its cities, its towns-and, especially-on its people."Oliphant, walking through the events and places of his own life, walks as well through the continuing presence of the past…[F]ew of us are likely to notice a book-length poem in a meditative mode which examines one man's history and plays it against, in complex and intricate fashion, the history of his city and state...."

Dorothy Ellis Barnett's savvy poetry mirrors a life lived in the service of art, revealing a writer who misses nothing, remaking a world she has learned to see so well and so intimately. In these poems, you feel the dust of small towns and back roads, the rivers' cool in an arid land, from memories lost in time to today's front-page news.

Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this poetic biography traces the story of musician Kenny Dorham's career performing with the greatest legends of jazz history's bop and hard bop eras-including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane. Also discussing extensive touring as a musician and his lamentably short-lived group the Jazz Prophets, this biography demonstrates the importance of Dorham's career.