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Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Kommunyakaa, eds. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991. 256 pp; $39.95 doth; $14.95 paper.

Feinstein and Komunyakaa's The Jazz Poetry Anthology and Charles O. Hartman's Jazz Text provide such different pleasures that they defy comparison. The former is hefty, nearly 300 pages, but being a collection with verve and much originality, it is not heavy. Hartman's critical/analytical study is brief, barely 150 pages, yet for most readers, it is, as the jazzer would say, "heavy." The language, whether Hartman is speaking of poetry, jazz compositions, or popular ...

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