"into water pus of a silver volcano"
Komunyakaa, Cortez, Beatty, Kareem, Matthews
Yusef Komunyakaa:
Jayne Cortez:
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Paul Beatty:
Mona Kareem:
William Matthews:
Charles Mingus, “Moanin’,” rec. February 4, 1959:
Charles Mingus, “Myself When I am Real,” rec. July 30, 1963:
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