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SAMPLE TEXTS

Editor's Note: Because so much of the literature published on the Web has been reproduced illegally, it is our policy not to offer sample text from specific issues. Instead, we have listed some of the works originally published in Brilliant Corners:

Whitney Balliett: The Prince of Jazz (essay) in Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954-1999 (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Bruce Bond: Django (poem) in The Throats of Narcissus (University of Arkansas, 2001).

Ralph Burns: Ghost Notes (poem, published in BC as "Pure Tones") in Ghost Notes (Oberlin College Press, 2001).

Hayden Carruth: Home Pome (poem) in Doctor Jazz (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).

Marilyn Chin: Emilies: Aria for My Mother and Hospital Interlude in Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (Norton, 2002).

Wanda Coleman: Salvation Wax (poem) in Bathwater Wine (Black Sparrow Press, 1998).

Billy Collins: And His Sextet and Snow (poems) in Picnic, Lightning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998). Snow reprinted in Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House, 2001). And His Sextet reprinted as Air Piano in Nine Horses (Random House, 2002).

Kiki DeLancey: Swingtime (story) in Coal Miner's Holiday (Sarabande Books, 2002).

*William Ford. Backseat with Bird (poem) in The Graveyard Picnic (Mid-Atlantic Books, 2002).

Farah Jasmine Griffin: Dark Lady of the Sonnets: Lady Day and the Poetic Imagination (essay) in If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery (Free Press, 2001).

Jennifer Grotz: For the Bassist Glen Moore (poem) in Cusp (Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming).

David Jauss: Brutes, Orphans, and Traps (poems) in You Are Not Here (Fleur-de-Lis Press, 2002).

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: Wynton Marsalis Plays in Buckhead (Atlanta 2/2/92) (poem) in The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State University Press, 2000). "Worn Blues Refrain (poem) in Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming).

Yusef Komunyakaa: Rhythm Method and Testimony (poems) in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University Press, 1998). Buddy's Monologue (drama) in Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (University of Michigan Press, 2000).

David Lehman: December 4 (poem) in The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (Scribner, 2000).

Philip Levine: The Unknowable (poem) in The Mercy (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999).

Al Maginnes: Between Tunes (poem) in The Light in Our Houses (Louisiana States University Press, 2001).

Clarence Major: In Walked Bud with a Palette (poem) in Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, 1998).

William Matthews: Mingus in Shadow (poem) in After All (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).

Mingus at the Showplace (interview) in The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews (University of Michigan Press, 2001).

Colleen McElroy: Eads Bridge Boogie Across the Mississippi (poem) in Travelling Music (Storyline Press, 1998).

Bill Moody: Chapter One from the novel Bird Lives! (Walker & Co., 1999).

Alison Pelegrin: Sister Zenith on Boozoo's Amputation and Lines Written by the Zydeco Band (poems) in Voodoo Lips (in Poems & Plays: Number Nine; Middle Tennessee State University, 2002). Reprinted in The Zydeco Tablets (Word Press, 2002).

Mandy Sayer: Excerpts from Dreamtime Alice: A Memoir (Ballantine Books, 1998).

Lisa Russ Spaar: McCoy's Hands at the Piano (poem) in Glass Town (Valentine Publishing Group, 1999).

Richard Terrill: Improvisations: Bill Evans (essay) in Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz (Limelight Editions, 2001).

John Edgar Tidwell: Weaving Strange Garments: Jazz in the Poetry of Frank Marshall Davis (essay) in Black Moods: Collected Poems (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

Quincy Troupe: Time Line of Breath & Music (poem) in Choruses (Coffee House Press, 1999).

Reetika Vazirani: Shuffle (poem) in World Hotel (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).

Carolyn Wright: The Opening Up, 1972 (poem) in Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Lynx House Press, 2000).

Al Young: Cold Snap, Five, One Hundred-Year-Old Jazz Head Tells All, Up Vernon's Alley (poems) in Conjugal Visits (Creative Arts Book Company, 1996). The Americanization of Solitude (poem), plus the previous four poems, in The Sound of Dreams Remembered (Creative Arts Book Company, 2001).