Quincy Troupe Duende | Reading & Book Signing | Sat, April 23 | 3-5 pm

16 Railroad Street,Great Barrington MA 01230

23 April, 2022

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Poet, Quincy Troupe Duende | DUENDE: Poems 1966- Now | Reading & Book Signing at the Carrie Chen Gallery on Saturday, April 23 from 3-5pm The Carrie Chen Gallery presents Poet, Quincy Troupe Duende | DUENDE: Poems 1966- Now | Reading & Book Signing at the Carrie Chen Gallery on Saturday, April 23 from 3-5pm. Free Admission and RSVP required. Since his earliest published poems in 1966, Quincy Troupe has been writing poetry in great waves. His is a generous and gregarious voice in this giant offering that includes many new poems, as well as a selection chosen from across his eleven previously published volumes. In DUENDE: Poems 1966- Now he conjures long rhythmic lines, cadences that reflect the jazz music he so adores, or looks back, haunted by the legacy of slavery and racism, or remembers fellow poets, musicians, and artists. What’s remarkable is the constancy, the energy and focus of the here and now, and, simultaneously, a view into the distance, maybe of gathering storms we’ll soon have to face. Troupe is a generous and gregarious poet in this giant offering that includes many new poems, as well as a selection chosen from across his eleven previously published volumes. What’s remarkable is the constancy, the energy, and how he’s always looking right at you in the here and now, and at the same time sees something over your shoulder that others don’t see yet, maybe a distant storm gathering over the waters, something we’re going to need to rise up and face soon enough. ABOUT QUINCY TROUPE may be the only American poet to have co-written two bestselling autobiographies, one of which, Miles: The Autobiography, is considered a milestone of contemporary jazz biography. With a career that has lasted 50 years, his greatest contribution is to American poetry, from his first collections of poems, Embryo (1972), Snake-Black Solos (1978), Skulls Along the River (1984), and Weather Reports (1991) to the many books he published with Coffee House Press including Avalanche (1996), Choruses (1999), Transcircu larities (2002, winner of the 2003 Milt Kessler Poetry Award and selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best poetry books of 2002), The Architecture of Language (2006, winner of the 2007 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement), and Errancities (2012) to the most recent, Ghost Voices (2019) and Seduction (2019). Troupe is also a biographer, journalist, professor, spoken word performer with noted jazz artists, alumnus of the Watts Writers Workshop, associated with the Black Arts Movement, former California poet laureate, children’s book author, and magazine editor of Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir. He co-wrote The Pursuit of Happyness, which spent over 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and was made into a major motion picture starring Will Smith. He is the author of Miles & Me, a memoir of his friendship with Miles Davis (Seven Stories Press), soon to be a major motion picture co-produced by Den zel Washington. He lives in Harlem with his wife, Margaret Porter Troupe, an arts curator and educator. “Quincy Troupe is a hoodoo soothsayer of poetry whose iconic riffs peal across each page as they peel back layers of America’s history. Reader—open this hefty Duende potion of Jazz and sweat with caution, ‘cause the swagger of each line might just drown you to save your life.” —Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olio “Duende is an exuberant, full scale, magical tour through a life well-lived! Quincy’s mesmerizing rhythms and dazzling images nourish heart, mind and soul! I love this book!” —Marilyn Chin, author of A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems About Carrie Chen Gallery: The Carrie Chen Gallery is located at 16 Railroad Street in Great Barrington, MA. The gallery showcases talented artists locally and globally working in a wide range of style and media. We support artists and share their visionary work with audiences by remaining at the integrity of innovation. The gallery follows its mission through comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations and collaboration. www.carriechengallery.com | 16 Railroad St, Great Barrington, MA | 413 645 3006 IG @carriechengallery.com | Email: [email protected]