Jayne Cortez
Composer, performance artist, poet1937–2012
Jayne Cortez (1937–2012) was an American avant-garde jazz poet. Honours include American Book Awards and Langston Hughes Medal.
Books
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On the imperial highway
2009 · Hanging Loose Press
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The beautiful book
2007 · Bola Press
Interview of Louise Meriwether
2004 · Hatch Billops Collection
Buy on BookshopJazz fan looks back
2002 · Hanging Loose Press
Buy on BookshopSomewhere in Advance of Nowhere (High Risk Books)
1996 · Serpent's Tail
'Within these circles'
1994 · Southern Illinois University English Dept.
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1991 · Bola Press
Buy on BookshopCoagulations
1984 · Thunder's Mouth Press
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Firespitter
1982 · City Lights Books
Mouth on paper
1977 · Bola Press
Scarifications
1973 · Bola Press
Festivals and funerals
1971 · Cortez
Pissstained stairs and the monkey man's wares
1969 · Phrase Text