Emergency Juke Joint
Editorial Reviews Born in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1953, he received a BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in English, and a Certificate of Poetics in 1980 from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where he was teaching assistant to Allen Ginsberg. In 1986 he received his M.S. Ed. in English and Deaf Education from the University of Rochester and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. In 1987, he coordinated the first, historic National Deaf Poetry Conference. Jim is the author of four collections of poetry: Green Sky (1980), Prairie Falcon (North Atlantic Books, 1989), Grasslands (Writers & Books Publications, 1994) and The Dance Of Yellow Lightning Over The Ridge (Writers & Books Publications, 1998). Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Kerouac School, described Prairie Falcon as "a strong, shapely collection with intelligence, heart, and love of the breadth of life." Grasslands won praise from Allen Ginsberg for its "inventive, profuse, concise, improvisational, playful and expansive Whitmanic quality." Inspired by the classic improvisational vocal performances of Jack Kerouac on the 1959 Steve Allen Plymouth Show, Jim has also established himself as a powerful spoken word performing artist with the release of five recordings: The Road (Rudy's Steakhouse, 1995), Walking Thru Hell Gazing At Flowers (Rudy's Steakhouse, 1996), Unspoken Words (MusEx Records, 1998), Antenna (MusEx Records, 1999) and Emergency Juke Joint (MusEx Records, 2002). Combining an inimitable mix of American roots music & spoken word, Jim's recordings air on radio stations in-the-know.MAP is an expression of his ongoing commitment to American experimental poetics, community service, eBeat Generation documentation, and democratic internet free speech. In 1999, the Museum of American Poetics became the first online poetry site to be mentioned in the New York Times. That same year Jim published his first collection of prose: Sign Mind: Studies in American Sign Language Poetics (Museum of American Poetics Publications, 1999). Sign Mind has received critical acclaim from deaf language arts scholars and hearing poets alike for providing aesthetic and cultural insight into the inclusion of non-normative poetries and poets within the context of the American literary canon.
<"b000065eot2999"> About the Artist
Jim Cohn has lead a life chronicling his times and the landscapes of his generation. His is a diamond hard language--brief, concise, fast, pictorial. "Jim's poetry cuts back and forth between the human heart and home, and the spaces and surprises of the wild," wrote Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder.
<"b000065eot4999"> Album Description
Jim Cohn's fifth recording of spoken word music is a breathtaking mix of blues, fusion, funk, jazz and the best poetry laid down since Jack Kerouac. 8 new tracks include: Skyology, The Dharma Club, Where The Road Disappears, Dragon Tracks, Fancy Ray, Allz Well, Begin Anew, and the moving tribute to 911 -- Ghost Dance. Featuring the sounds of Boulder's most hip musicians, Emergency Juke Joint is a five star must have joy.
Emergency Juke Joint, Music, Jim Cohn
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