The Final Nite & Other Poems: The Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, 1987-2006 - Softcover
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Poetry. THE FINAL NITE chronicles, in verse, nearly two decades of work written while listening to live performances (studio dates included) by the extraordinary musician Charles Gayle. Including every poem written under these circumstances, the poems are for the most part spontaneous compositions that reflect, respond to, or incorporate elements of Gayle's music as well as his "speeches" and "sermons" and often relate, in an "open field" manner, to the actual physical environment where the music occurred. "Dalachinsky writes free jazz. He lives the music, and his poems capture its heat and illumination"--Francis Davis. "Steve Dalachinsky is a poet of the real world in a time when reality is despised, dismissed, not understood or lied about"--Amiri Baraka.
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The Final Nite & Other Poems: Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006
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Ugly Duckling Presse / Silkheart Records, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933254157
ISBN 13: 9781933254159
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. John D'Agostino (illustrator). 1st Edition. In very good condition; slight scuffing to wraps; points of slight rubbing along edges; otherwise, as new. 247 numbered pages. SIGNED by author on title page. 8 x 6 in. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 004843
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The Final Nite & Other Poems : Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle notebook, 1987-2006 [SIGNED]
Published by
Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2006
ISBN 10: 1933254157
ISBN 13: 9781933254159
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Seller: DuBois Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book Condition: light signs of handling with faint wear to the extremities; binding very sound, interior clean and bright and unmarked. Warmly but cryptically inscribed by author: "For whomever is holding this book who are is Jack - all the bugs out of language into the music of the ears. Steve, Cornelia Street. 10/9/06." A lovely copy poetically inscribed. Accessed from assorted online sources: "Born in Brooklyn in 1946, much of the chronology of Dalachinsky's life and work is unclear. He had been publishing chapbooks and individual poems since at least the early 1980s; although the 2009 anthology Reaching into the Unknown contains writing that dates back to 1964, it wasn't until 2000 that he published his first full-length book of poems, A Superintendent's Eyes. He was a prolific reader and performer of his own work for much longer, however, and had appeared on at least three albums as a spoken-word artist. Dalachinsky claimed the influence of Kafka, Camus, Blake, and visual arts. "A Superintendent's Eyes" was based primarily on his years as the superintendent of a building in SoHo, where he lived for 40 years. "Avant-garde jazz is just one inspiration for my writing/poetry," he said in 2016, "though I admit it's been a big one." It was certainly the one that figured in his most acclaimed work: the groundbreaking 2006 collection The Final Nite, which consisted of poems written over 19 years-entirely at and about performances by saxophonist Charles Gayle. The book received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 2007." From his obituary online on the wire: "Steve Dalachinsky died on 16 September 2019. Witnesses report that having attended Saturday's Sun Ra Arkestra concert shortly before his stroke, the legendary wiseass's last words were: Maybe I overdosed with Sun Ra.". Seller Inventory # 004437