Ted Joans

Ted Joans, actually Theodore Jones ( born July 4, 1928 in Cairo, Illinois, † 25 April 2003 in Vancouver, Canada) was an American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter.

In the 1960s, Joan owned a house in Timbuktu. He claimed a brother of LeRoi Jones to be; but this is uncertain. Ted Joans Theodore Jones was born on a houseboat in Cairo, Illinois. He studied art at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Joan joined later to the writers of the Beat Generation in New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco. He was a friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. His painting "Bird Lives!" Hangs in the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Joan was after the death of Charlie Parker in March 1955, the author of "Bird Lives!" Legend and the same graffiti in New York City. He invented the surrealist technique of " Outagraphie " in which the main subject of a photograph is cut out of the picture. Ted Joans died in Vancouver, Canada, after he had long suffered from diabetes.

Joan's books of poetry have been published in German under the name "Blitz lovers Poems", Lightning Love is of course a witty allusion to Blitzkrieg.

Works (selection)

  • Out of stock, or flash lovers Poems. Loose Leaves Press, Kassel, Hamburg 1979, editor, translator. Michael Kellner. Second, greatly enlarged edition:
  • More Lightning Love Poems. Publisher Michael Kellner, Bags texts, No. 1, 1982 Hamburg translator. Eckhard Rhode among others ISBN 3-922035-00-0
  • The Aardvark Watcher. The Erdferkelforscher. Literary Colloquium Berlin, LBC editions, No. 62, Berlin 1980. Translator Richard Anders.
  • All of Ted Joans and No More. Excelsior Press, New York 1961.
  • The Hipsters. Corinth Books, New York 1961.
  • Black Pow -Wow. Jazz Poems. Hill & Wang, New York 1969.
  • Afrodisia Hill & Wang, New York 1970
  • A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose. Calder & Boyars, London 1971.
  • Ted Joans, Joyce Mansoury: Flying Piranha. Bola Press, New York 1978
  • Honeyspoon 1993
  • Teducation. Coffee House Press, 1999.
  • Wow. Quarermoon Press, Mukilteo, WA 1999. With drawings by Laura Corsiglia.
  • Ted Joans, Laura Corsiglia: Our Thang. Ecstasy Editions, Victoria, BC, 2001.
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