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Yardbird Suite, Side One: 1920-1940: A Biopoem: Fictionalized Accounts of Events Real and Imagined from the Life of Charles Yardbird Parker
Contributor(s): Harris, Bill (Author)
ISBN: 0870134353     ISBN-13: 9780870134357
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
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Product Type: Paperback
Published: May 1998
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Annotation: Yardbird Suite, Side One: 1920-1940 is a marvelous interpretation of instrumental music through poetry. It is described by the author as "a biopoem" containing fictionalized accounts of events, real and imagined, in the life of the famous jazz musician, Charles "Yardbird" Parker.
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 97045585
Series: Lotus Poetry Series
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6.05" W x 9.08" (0.41 lbs) 119 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1920's
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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"Yardbird Suite, Side One: 1920-1940 "is a marvelous interpretation of instrumental music through poetry. It is described by the author as "a biopoem" containing "fictionalized accounts of events, real and imagined," in the life of the famous jazz musician, Charles "Yardbird" Parker.
Harris, who is better known as a playwright, is the author of numerous plays that have received more than fifty productions nationally. This collection, winner of the annual Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, is his first published book of poetry."