Re: [New-Poetry] Wynton Marsalis combines passions for jazz, poetry on ‘He and She’

[TheOldMole]

A man, a woman, a country bluesman and a blackbird are one.

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> http://www.projo.com/music/content/artsun-Wynton-Marsalis_05-31-09_FJDOM49_v14.1b6972c.html
>
> I started to put all these things together. I decided I would write a 
> poem and then have some music come out of the poem. . . . I wanted the 
> structure of the poem to have all kinds of threes in it . . . a man, a 
> woman and a country bluesman; and things that are metaphors for that — 
> the sun, the moon, the midnight sky.”
>
> The crux of the poem is the different ways men and women conceive of 
> their relationship. One plus one might equal two when you’re a 
> schoolboy, but “in the arena of romance one plus one does not equal 
> two,” the 47-year-old Marsalis says.
>  
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