{"product_id":"ask-me-now-conversations-on-jazz-and-literature-9780253218766","title":"Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsk Me Now\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for discussions on the elusive but engaging relationships between jazz and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sascha Feinstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.28w x 1.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253218766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSascha Feinstein is Professor of English at Lycoming College, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program and edits \u003ci\u003eBrilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz \u0026amp; Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e He is author of \u003ci\u003eJazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present \u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 1991) and has won the Hayden Carruth Award for his poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eMisterioso\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39946309861491,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_35c8f532-50f7-4596-b455-94270a4233ac.jpg?v=1648313679","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ask-me-now-conversations-on-jazz-and-literature-9780253218766","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}