Yardbird Suite, Side One: 1920-1940 is a marvelous interpretation of instrumental music through poetry. It is described by the author as "a biopoem" containing "fictionalized accounts of events, real and imagined," in the life of the famous jazz musician, Charles "Yardbird" Parker.
Harris, who is better known as a playwright, is the author of numerous plays that have received more than fifty productions nationally. This collection, winner of the annual Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, is his first published book of poetry.
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Autumn In New York
Back Home Blues
Bird Feathers: Why'd The Chicken Cross The Road
Body & Soul
Body And Soul (take 1)
Body And Soul (take 2)
Carvin' The Bird
Dark Shadows. Take 2
Dark Shadows: (take 3) Nighthawks
Easy To Love
Fine And Dandy
Groovin' High
Home Cookin': Charles And Rebecca. Their Bedroom. Evening
Hootie Blues
Hot House, 1515 Oliver Street, K.c., Mo
I Found A New Baby
I Get A Kick Out Of You
I Remember You
I Want Ev'ry Bit Of It
I'll Always Love You Just The Same
The Jumpin' Blues
Just Friends
Lonely Boy Blues
Meandering: 1. Merry-go-1 Round
Meandering: 2. Dark Shadows (take 1)
Meandering: 3. Hallelujah
Move
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Now's The Time (take 1): 1. Celerity
Now's The Time (take 1): 2. Now's The Time
Now's The Time (take 1): 3. After You're Gone
Now's The Time (take Two) Bird, Apple Bound, Boards Kaycee
Ornithology: Genealogy
Out Of Nowhere
Pennies From Heaven: Wham Bam
Repetition (take 1)
'round Midnight
Scrapple From The Apple
Something To Remember Me By
The Song Is You
Takin' Off
They Didn't Believe Me
Things To Come
This Is Always
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Back Home Blues
Bird Feathers: Why'd The Chicken Cross The Road
Body & Soul
Body And Soul (take 1)
Body And Soul (take 2)
Carvin' The Bird
Dark Shadows. Take 2
Dark Shadows: (take 3) Nighthawks
Easy To Love
Fine And Dandy
Groovin' High
Home Cookin': Charles And Rebecca. Their Bedroom. Evening
Hootie Blues
Hot House, 1515 Oliver Street, K.c., Mo
I Found A New Baby
I Get A Kick Out Of You
I Remember You
I Want Ev'ry Bit Of It
I'll Always Love You Just The Same
The Jumpin' Blues
Just Friends
Lonely Boy Blues
Meandering: 1. Merry-go-1 Round
Meandering: 2. Dark Shadows (take 1)
Meandering: 3. Hallelujah
Move
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Now's The Time (take 1): 1. Celerity
Now's The Time (take 1): 2. Now's The Time
Now's The Time (take 1): 3. After You're Gone
Now's The Time (take Two) Bird, Apple Bound, Boards Kaycee
Ornithology: Genealogy
Out Of Nowhere
Pennies From Heaven: Wham Bam
Repetition (take 1)
'round Midnight
Scrapple From The Apple
Something To Remember Me By
The Song Is You
Takin' Off
They Didn't Believe Me
Things To Come
This Is Always
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
About the Author
Bill Harris is playwright, poet, critic, novelist, and Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit. He was formerly Production Coordinator for Jazzmobile, and the New Federal Theatre, both in New York. His plays have had more than seventy productions nationwide. Harris received the Kresge Foundation's 2011 Kresge Eminant Artist Award.
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