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By Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett's twelfth booklet, hold forth: a e-book of jazz, is loosely, a "serial" poem, a publication of seventy six associated poems, every one responding (himself as a jazz fan) to the paintings of seventy six very present jazz musicians. those "jazzers", as he calls them, will not be the previous attempted & actual names all of us know—they fall, very approximately, into 3 basic camps: the "sons of Miles" (Jarrett, Hancock, Corea, McLaughlin, Scofield, Shorter, etc.); the ECM artists (largely Norwegian, the very modern sound coming from jazz's moment centre nowadays) & very younger (20-something), hip, fascinating, & as a rule NYC-based musicians. no matter if readers have heard of names like invoice Frisell or Ketil Bjørnstad won't subject. this can be a publication of poems celebrating track (almost all of the poems are laudatory; a small few are askancely critical). yet basically they're poems for readers—no jazz services required. Like Bett's newest paintings, the poems have a tendency towards the "minimalist"— which additionally works with the musical topic. Structurally, the poems paintings in a series, with language, photos, rules, echoing in the course of the e-book. The association is easy, the names of the musicians alphabetized to set put off score or choice. Bett has stated that every one his writing existence been attempting to achieve towards Zukofsky's perfect language for poetry as "upper sign in tune: song"— his final three or four books have been getting nearer and hold forth simply could be the nearest yet.

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