Choruses

by Quincy Troupe

Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses. Merging traditional poetic form with contemporary content, Troupe fashions "words & sounds that build bridges toward a new tongue", as he writes in "Song," an ars poetica. Only Troupe could write a sestina chronicling the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate, or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156689090X
• ISBN13: 9781566890908
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Troupe's Luminous Maturity Speaks

Q. troupe's Luminous Maturity truly speaks out in this learned, secondary collection of poems that draws from a wide influence of jazz/musical forms, politics, art, and the beauty and power of our own collective linguistics.If, as a reader of poetry and/or prose, you would like a generous sampling of Troupe's work, this would be a very recommended read, for it allows a sense of continuity, definition and recapitulation of Troupe's ever-evolving oeuvre to be sensed: You have the presence of Troupe's brillaint immersion of contemporary thoughts/ideas with that of classical poetic forms: sestinas, villanelles, haikus & tankas - among them, a collection for the Point Loma Waste-Water Management Project in San Diego - and his literary musical/cadenced innovations covering a wide array of subjects from visual/sculptural art, to contemporary politics, to familial reflections/tropes and his speciality: forms attempting to emulate the steady pace and flowof Jazz, especially that of Miles Davis.Aside from some of the more lengthy, free-wheeling and boundlessly expanding poems, and perhaps from his (sometimes, but rarely) careless digressions into other lesser-known aspects of living and life, Quincy Troupe's poetry speaks with a resonance and clarity greater than the abstractions of most poets, and itsmanifestions can best be seen through this work.