A poetic meditation on the last year of tenor saxophonist Lester Young's life, of joyful playing and self-willed dying. In 1959, at the age of fifty, jazz greaet Lester Young--a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy--died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. As Meltzer explains, " No Eyes is a book about death, and Young sits in for a metaphor for the artist living and dying for and with his art." An "inside" biography, No Eyes is a brilliant jazz-world evocation, composed in free verse ...
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A poetic meditation on the last year of tenor saxophonist Lester Young's life, of joyful playing and self-willed dying. In 1959, at the age of fifty, jazz greaet Lester Young--a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy--died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. As Meltzer explains, " No Eyes is a book about death, and Young sits in for a metaphor for the artist living and dying for and with his art." An "inside" biography, No Eyes is a brilliant jazz-world evocation, composed in free verse whose flow is arrested to capture significant moments, Meltzer creates a layered narrative of vivid colors and textures, the material facts of Young's story dissolving into internalized, projected truths of erotic understanding and spiritual sympathy with the "sweet and isolate lovely other."
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Add this copy of No Eyes: Lester Young to cart. $102.00, like new condition, Sold by Outrider Book Gallery rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lacey, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Black Sparrow Press.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. A fine condition book with a near fine acetate dust jacket. Sewn binding. Pictorial paper over boards. 181 p. Audience: General/trade. Book is straight with strong binding and very clean text. Singed limited edition, this being #59 of 100 copies printed and signed on colophon by David Meltzer. First Edition 2000.
Add this copy of No Eyes: Lester Young to cart. $157.00, like new condition, Sold by Outrider Book Gallery rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lacey, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Black Sparrow Press.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. A like new book. Signed and numbered 59 of 100 copies printed. Sewn binding. Pictorial boards. Acetate dust jacket. 181 pg. Book is clean and tight. Numbered 59 of 100 copies printed and signed on colophon by David Meltzer.
Add this copy of No Eyes: Lester Young to cart. $232.00, like new condition, Sold by Outrider Book Gallery rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lacey, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Black Sparrow Press.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. A like new book. Signed and lettered N of 22 copies printed. Includes a drawing by and signed by David Meltzer on blank fly leaf. Sewn binding. Pictorial boards. Acetate dust jacket. 181 pg. Book is clean and tight. Lettered N of 22 copies printed and signed on colophon by David Meltzer. Includes a drawing by Meltzer which is signed by him on front black fly leaf.
Add this copy of No Eyes: Lester Young to cart. $122.91, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Black Sparrow Press.
Add this copy of No Eyes: Lester Young to cart. $28.41, good condition, Sold by Friends of the Phoenix Library rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Phoenix, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Black Sparrow Press.
Add this copy of No Eyes: Lester Young to cart. $77.63, good condition, Sold by Friends of the Phoenix Library rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Phoenix, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Black Sparrow Press.
