Quincy Troupe, Author . Coffee House $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56689-135-6
A multi-award–winning veteran of performance poetry and of the printed page, California's first official poet laureate demonstrates his ebullient and undimmed powers in this capacious selection from his eight previous books of verse....
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Quincy Troupe, Author . Coffee House $24.95 (103p) ISBN 978-1-56689-190-5
In the best poems in Troupe's latest collection—following 2002's Transcircularities—
which is organized into seven thematic sections, this prolific author finds that "magic comes when you least expect it." A group of...
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Quincy Troupe, Author Coffee House Press $14.95 (111p) ISBN 978-1-56689-090-8
Troupe's sixth collection covers a wide cultural bandwidth: the Monica-gate scandal, the Heaven's Gate mass suicide; jazz greats like Miles Davis (Troupe's Miles: The Biography is the standard) and Richard Muhal Abrams; sports stars like Michael...
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Quincy Troupe, Author Coffee House Press $23.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-56689-092-2
Troupe's sixth collection covers a wide cultural bandwidth: the Monica-gate scandal, the Heaven's Gate mass suicide; jazz greats like Miles Davis (Troupe's Miles: The Biography is the standard) and Richard Muhal Abrams; sports stars like Michael...
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Quincy Troupe, Author University of California Press $25 (200p) ISBN 978-0-520-21624-2
Growing up in St. Louis, Mo., in the 1950s, Troupe idolized jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, seeing him as an alternative to his own white-dominated neighborhood and high school. Miles, as a successful black man embodying all that was hip and proud, was...
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Quincy Troupe, Author, Lisa Cohen, Illustrator , illus. by Lisa Cohen. Houghton $18 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-34060-6
Against a background of bold yellow and black, the dark glasses and snapping fingers of Stevie Wonder poke up from the lower left corner of the opening spread. "Isn't he lovely,/ this blind black boy/ born to love everyone?" begins this...
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Quincy Troupe, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator Jump at the Sun $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0510-5
Only occasional commas and a single dash break up Troupe's (Miles and Me) rambling, stream-of-consciousness tribute to the on-court skills of Magic Johnson. Though the momentum of the text recalls that of a basketball player in motion, much of the...
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Quincy Troupe, Author, Jose Bedia, Illustrator, Josc) Bedia, Illustrator Coffee House Press $11.95 (126p) ISBN 978-1-56689-044-1
Troupe heaves a cold, smacking ""rush of objects"" down an American mountainside of dreams and injustices. A respected chronicler of the lives of James Baldwin and Miles Davis and the son of a prominent Negro league catcher, Troupe (Snake-Back Solos)
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Quincy Troupe, Author, Jose Bedia, Illustrator, Josc) Bedia, Illustrator Coffee House Press $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-56689-045-8
Troupe heaves a cold, smacking ""rush of objects"" down an American mountainside of dreams and injustices. A respected chronicler of the lives of James Baldwin and Miles Davis and the son of a prominent Negro league catcher, Troupe (Snake-Back Solos)
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