A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration.
"Internationally acclaimed for his mastery of Japanese poetic forms, Lenard D. Moore demonstrates sprezzatura (as defined by Baldassare Castiglione) in mapping The Geography of Jazz. His poems involve disciplined attentiveness to the sonic imperatives of jazz and sensitivity to the agony and ecstasy that characterizes jazz performances. His poems provide a micro-atlas of the vast territory of jazz, and they mask, with fine discrimination, the intense labor of conjoining music and poetry. Those who read Moore's jazz poems/ maps accurately shall discover a rewarding world of spatial, temporal, and spiritual experiences." -Jerry W. Ward, Jr., author of The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery