{"product_id":"suicides-and-jazzers-hayden-carruth-9780472094196","title":"Suicides and Jazzers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Suicides and Jazzers, Hayden Carruth reveals as never before the hard experiences that have shaped his life and art. In the lead essay, entitled \"Suicide,\" he speaks of the psychiatric illness he has lived with for most of his life and his attempted suicide in 1988. In \"Fragments of Autobiography,\" he shares memories of a Connecticut childhood, early ruminations about death, and his coming-of-age in small-town America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major essay on the poetry of Paul Goodman is followed by shorter essays on Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Donald Hall, and Carolyn Kizer. In sections entitled \"Elegies,\" \"Reviews,\" and \"Musical\" Carruth celebrates fine writers and musicians who he feels have been intentionally neglected by the establishment, including authors Grace Paley and David Ignatow, tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, and, in \"The Spun-Off Independent Dead-End Ten-Star Blast,\" white jazz musicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hayden Carruth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047209419X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472094196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Hayden Carruth","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517323620607,"sku":"9780472094196","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3009e5cc-df01-4f26-948f-846d2737bf5d.jpg?v=1778731352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/suicides-and-jazzers-hayden-carruth-9780472094196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}