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The passion to create is all, and let the world go hang itself’ Herbert Kretzmer, Daily Mail","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201676968114,"sku":"9780330313827","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780330313827_3e1ce881-cb56-4e5f-aca0-88949e07b628.jpg?v=1786013490"},{"product_id":"9781612194004","title":"James Baldwin: The Last Interview","description":"'I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.' James Baldwin lived by that creed. When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe travelled to the south of France to interview a critically ill James Baldwin, they knew it was his last chance to speak at length about his life and work. The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of Baldwin's career, ranging widely over his youth in Harlem, his friendship with Miles Davis and Toni Morrison and his thoughts on race.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204693622962,"sku":"9781612194004","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781612194004_9414f946-ce8c-4cad-ba33-ae628355c80c.jpg?v=1786023114"},{"product_id":"9780810139046","title":"Seduction","description":"The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe's \u003cem\u003eSeduction\u003c\/em\u003e, the \"\"I\"\" becomes the \"\"Eye,\"\" serving as metaphor and witness in a narrative compilation from a master of poetic music. Elegies and dramatic odes look at the seduction of all things loved or hated, especially the man made of color. How did the killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Trayvon Martin seduce the public's eye and catch the fire of racism? How did Aretha Franklin seduce us with voice and twang? How does the art of Romare Bearden or Jack Whitten still tell our truths, fantasies, and oppressions?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etime is a bald eagle, a killer soaring high in the blue, \/ music to men dodging bullets in speeding cars, \/ knew death, hoped it'd never come . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection we are seduced by Troupe's opus. This is the poet's art laid bare. He is our \"\"Eye.\"\" Visions of the transatlantic slave trade, portraits of American violence, pop culture, and historical voices are the lyrical relics in Troupe's masterful verse. One of American literature's most important rhythmical artists, Troupe has created a chronicle reaching through history for the collective \"\"I\/Eye\"\" that is all of us.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294851936629,"sku":"9780810139046","price":27.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780810139046_6ae1c69b-9255-420f-91e6-b504a40ab488.jpg?v=1786015854"},{"product_id":"9780810138995","title":"Ghost Voices","description":"If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what would they say? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spokesman for the humanizing forces of poetry, music, and art, parts the Atlantic and rattles the ground built on slavery with \u003cem\u003eGhost Voices: A Poem in Prayer\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewe are crossing, \/ we are \/ crossing, \/ we are crossing in big salt water, \/\/ we are crossing, \/\/ crossing under a sky of no guilt \/ we have left home \/\/ though we know we will go back \/ someday, \/ see our people \/ as we knew them . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTroupe re-creates the history of lost voices between the waters of Africa, Cuba, and the United States. His daring poetics drenched in new forms-notably the seven-elevens-clench transformative narratives spurred on by a relentless, rhythmic language that mimics the foaming waves of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. His personae speak quantum litanies within one epic, sermonic-gospel to articulate our most ancient ways of storytelling and survival.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294905315701,"sku":"9780810138995","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780810138995_a632f427-aaba-4b9b-8e32-91c703b0df11.jpg?v=1786015852"},{"product_id":"miles","title":"Miles","description":"‘Magnificently truthful, action-packed, raw and bleeding’ Miles Kington, IndependentMiles: The Autobiography is the definitive autobiography of American music icon Miles Davis. In his memoir, the legendary jazz musician speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he encountered in the music business and in American society generally, and he discusses the women that were in his life. But above all, he talks about music and musicians, including the legends he played with over the years: Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus and many others. The man who gave us some of the most influential music of the twentieth century here gives us a fascinating and compelling insight into his extraordinary life.   ‘An engrossing read . . . gives fascinating insights into the cult phenomenon’ Miles Copeland, The Telegraph‘Passionate, opinionated, unfettered . . . What gives this book, and the man, their final weight and strength is Davis’s driving, almost possessed pursuit of his art’ Herbert Kretzmer, Daily MailNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57502202593653,"sku":"9781037428944","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781037428944.jpg?v=1792425332"},{"product_id":"the-accordion-years","title":"The Accordion Years","description":"Known for the power of his metaphors and the stride in his sentences, Troupe's language springs from the rhythms of jazz and the history of the African diaspora. Even today, Quincy Troupe will tell you that the strength in his writing is his memories of his parents and grandparents and the worlds they showed him through their eyes. Here is Quincy Troupe's first memoir, his own life in his own words. Troupe's father was the legendary catcher Quincy Troupe Sr., a hero of the Negro Leagues who played for the Cleveland Indians in 1952 at the end of his long career, fielding flawlessly with a 1000 fielding rating, one of the oldest and highest achieving rookies ever. Quincy junior grew up in St. Louis and went to Grambling College on a basketball and baseball scholarship. But he was a rebel who could not be put down, so trouble found him and he was asked to leave Grambling. Shortly after, his own beloved mother asked him to leave home in similar fashion. She registered him in the US Army, and he spent the next three and half of his six-year enlistment period playing basketball on the All-Army basketball team in France (1959-1962). From the time he left sports for writing, he excelled in many forms, from poetry to journalism to bestselling nonfiction. Troupe did the last interview with James Baldwin, and his friendship with Miles Davis led to their legendary collaboration in Miles: The Autobiography, which began when Spin magazine sent young Quincy over to Miles Davis's house and it turned out they were both from St. Louis - and Miles liked him!","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555401933173,"sku":"9781644215876","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644215876.jpg?v=1788791526"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-quincy-troupe.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}