Poet painter / former villager now / world traveller
By: Ted Joans; Wendy Tronrud & Ammiel Alcalay, editors ; preface by Diane di Prima
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 6, number 4, Spring 2016; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- ser. 6, no. 4
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780997679601
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Works
Description: "Ted Joans: Poet Painter / Former Villager Now / World Traveller, co-edited by Wendy Tronrud and Ammiel Alcalay, presents many archival texts by Joans that have never been published before, accompanied by photographs of Joans with a remarkable array of his friends, from James Baldwin and Archie Shepp to Anais Nin and Stokely Carmichael. Texts in this two chapbook selection include excerpts from one of Joans’ major but virtually unknown projects, a guidebook to Africa, as well as a selection of writings on music, surrealism, and the inimitable 1965 “Negative Cowboy."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/04/2016).
Notes: "Ted Joans (1928-2003) was born in Cairo, Illinois, to parents who worked the riverboats on the Ohio and Mississippi. Trained as a visual artist and musician, Joans moved to New York City in 1951 to further immerse himself in the culture of art and jazz, soon becoming an essential figure in the Beat movement. Unable to abide the unyielding specter of US racism, he moved to Europe but, unlike many other black ex-pats, he continued his journey into Africa and lived most of his later life between Europe and Africa. While Ted Joans is a legendary figure known to many, much of his work is either out-of-print or remains in the archive. Some of his works include All of Ted Joans and No More (1961), Black Pow-Wow Jazz Poems (1969), Afrodisia (1970), and Teducation: Selected Poems 1949-1999 (1999)."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/04/2016).

As issued, saddle-stitched in dark teal paper; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 :; title: Introduction --; title: Ted Joans: a brief biography --; title: Ted Joans in Paris, 1976: preface  -- Diane di Prima; title: Selections from the archive--Part 1 : Ornette Coleman (1961) -- Alto sax sensations -- Negative cowboy (1965) -- Untitled fragment -- Letter to students & workers in Paris (1968) -- Letter to Time editor (1968) -- Letter from Stokely Carmichael & Miriam Makeba (1969) -- The adventures of Ultra White and Super Black (1969) -- Letter from Allen Ginsberg (1971) -- Mutualité à la Cecil Taylor (1976) -- Archie Shepp at the Riverbop (1976) -- Postcard from Allen Ginsberg (1977) ;; title: Part 2 : Selections from the archive--Part 2 : The book of the best travels to and back from Timbuktu (1962-1978); title: And I went as usual to the desert --; title: Letter --; title: Black tongue lash on surreality (1980) --; title: Once upon a time there was a poet of Harlem --; title: Weegee and we (1989) --; title: The aardvarkian surreal stroll in Paris (1992) --; title: Letter from Will Alexander --; title: Untitled fragment --; title: Excerpt of letter to Amiri Baraka --; title: Acknowledgments.