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Blues for Bird

by (author) Martin Gray

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1993
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921215646
    Publish Date
    Sep 1993
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Blues for Bird combines intense passion with lyric restraint to celebrate the life and legend of Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker. The images unfold like a movie montage, evoking piece by piece the brief life and tragic death of a jazz icon.

About the author

Martin Gray is one of the world's foremost scholars of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry and the editor of the Penguin Classic annotated edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Gray has published poems on Gilles Villeneuve, Amedeo Modigliani, and Jackson Pollock and has taught at several major universities across Canada. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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