To Breathe into Another Voice: A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry

"Given South Africa’s venerable jazz tradition, it’s perhaps surprising it’s taken so long for more fundis to be tapped for their responses to our kind of jazz. But it takes a special brew of ingredients for this kind of book to come together. You need an inspired guiding spirit, such as editor and jazzwoman-in-words Myesha Jenkins, and you need a vat in which the ingredients can mix and bubble. You’ll find everything here in To breathe into another voice: faithful and fantastical accounts of the jazz life and jazz people as well as reflections on the music as a metaphor for how we live – or, maybe more importantly, how we’d like to live. All you need to do now is open the covers, start reading, and dance joyously about the architecture." —Gwen Ansel

Author(s): MoAfrika 'aMokgathi, Ayanda Billie, Gary Cummiskey, Raphael d'Abdon, Sedica Davids, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Diana Ferrus, John Forbis, Vangi Gantsho, Barry Gilder, Sarah Godsell, Aryan Kaganof, Zaheer Karolia, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Allan Kolski Horwitz, LeratoRato Kuzwayo, Percy Mabandu, Xitha Makgeta, Serame 'Icebound' Makhele, Lebohang Nova Masango, Lati Matjeni, Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana, Frank Meintjies, Steve Kwena Mokwena, Natalia Molebatsi, Azval Moola, Nolene Morris, Bernedette Muthien, Mandy Poetician Ndaliso, Linda Ndlovo, Malika Ndlovu, Derrick Newson, Siza Nkosi, Harry Owen, Selome 'Flow' Payne, Koleka Putuma, Richard 'Quaz' Roodt, Lamelle Shaw, Eugene Skeef, Cornelia Smith Fick, Xabiso Vili, Mphutlane wa Bofelo, Roux Wessels,