SOURCE: "Jazz and Poetry," in The Twentieth Century, Vol. 166, No. 990, August, 1959, pp. 84-94.

In the following two-part essay, the author of the first section, Christopher Logue, calls for more innovations in the field of poetry in terms of style, experimentation with which brought about the technique of reading poetry against a background of jazz music; the author of the second section, Charles Fox, identifies three separate traditions in the jazz-and-poetry movement.

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