about Charlie Parker, shows how radio airwaves also cross this flyover region. In the poem, "Eleusinian mysteries" are ecstatic Greek rites. Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young are saxophone players with ties to Kansas and Kansas City. And "Ornithology" is the title of one of Parker’s albums (he was known as Bird). This poem is an homage to jazz as understood by a poet [B. H. Fairchild] who first learned to play the saxophone and then the instrument of American language.Hearing Parker the First Time
from Denise Low: Ad Astra Poetry Project: B. H. (Pete) Fairchild (1942--)
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