Moment's notice : jazz in poetry & prose / edited by Art Lange & Nathaniel Mackey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Melvin Tolson -- Mu / Langston Hughes -- Projection -- Flatted Fifths -- Jam Session -- Be-Bop Boys -- Song for Billie Holiday / Robert Hayden -- Soledad / Julio Cortazar -- Hopscotch -- Louis, Super-Cronopio / Thomas McGrath -- Giuffe's Nightmusic / J. F. Powers -- He Don't Plant Cotton / Kamau Brathwaite -- Clock / Hayden Carruth -- Freedom and Discipline -- Three Paragraphs / Jack Kerouac -- The Subterraneans / James Schuyler -- Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey! / James Baldwin -- Sonny's Blues / Paul Blackburn -- Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five Spot / Robert Creeley -- Chasing the Bird / Jack Spicer -- Song for Bird and Myself / Evan Hunter -- Streets of Gold / John Clellon Holmes -- Chorus: Wing / Frank O'Hara -- The Day Lady Died / Cecil Taylor -- Garden / Gregory Corso -- For Miles / Fielding Dawson -- The Planets -- Full Circle -- Miles / Bob Kaufman -- Battle Report -- Walking Parker Home -- O-JAZZ-O War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen To It At Your Own Risk / Amiri Baraka -- The Rare Birds -- In the Tradition -- Now and Then -- Answers in Progress / Ted Berrigan -- String of Pearls / Henry Dumas -- Will the Circle Be Unbroken? / Clayton Eshleman -- Foo to the Infinite -- Bud Powell, 1925-1966 / Robert Kelly -- Newark / Jay Wright -- 19 -- The End of an Ethnic Dream / Jayne Cortez -- Rose Solitude -- Solo Finger Solo -- I See Chano Pozo -- Tapping / David Meltzer -- 17:II:82 -- 18:VI:82 / Larry Neal -- Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat -- Harlem Gallery: From the Inside / Michael S. Harper -- A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Played by Himself -- For Bud -- Peace on Earth -- Driving the Big Chrysler across the Country of My Birth / David Hilton -- Finding a Chet Baker Album in the Dimestore / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Filling the Gap -- Blue Gene -- Wintersong -- Blues for Dan Morin / Ishmael Reed -- Poetry Makes Rhythm in Philosophy -- Lake Bud / Clark Coolidge -- Rhymes with Monk -- Of What The Music to Me / Abdullah Ibraihm -- Africa, Music and Show Business / Al Young -- Body and Soul -- Moody's Mood for Love -- Lester Leaps In -- Topsy: Part 2 -- Dance of the Infidels / Doug Lang -- The Depression / Jim Brodey -- Lennie Tristano, No Wind -- Little Light / David Henderson -- Sonny Rollins -- A Coltrane Memorial -- Thelonious Sphere Monk / John Taggart -- Giant Steps / Michael Ondaatje -- Coming Through Slaughter / Quincy Troupe -- Four and More; for Miles Davis -- Snake-Back Solo -- Leaving Los Angeles / Bill Zavatsky -- To the Pianist Bill Evans / K. Curtis Lyle -- Tampa Red's Contemporary Blues / Lorenzo Thomas -- Wonders -- Historiography / Wanda Coleman -- Cousin Mary -- but, ruby my dear / Nathaniel Mackey -- Capricorn Rising -- "John Coltrane Arrived with an Egyptian Lady" -- Bedouin Hornbook / Ntozake Shange -- okra to greens -- rite-ing / Xam Wilson Cartier -- Be-Bop, Re-Bop / Thulani Davis -- Expandable Language -- C. T.'s variation -- Rogue & Jar: 4/27/77 / Jessica Hagedorn -- Solea / August Kleinzahler -- Like Cities, Like Storms -- Love Poem / Amus Mor -- The Coming of John / Kofi Natambu -- Words & Music in America -- The Funky Butt Legacy Song / Peter Kostakis -- Fire Parcel -- The Circle with a Hole in the Middle / Art Lange -- A Fine Line -- Mbizo -- A White Line / Joel Lewis -- To The Great Hard-Bop Pianists.