Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index. - Introduction: How do I make that sound? a new feminist poetics -- Finding her voice: the body politics of Sherley Anne Williams's blues -- Nationhood re-formed: revolutionary style and practice in Sonia Sanchez's jazz poetics -- Talk to me: ecofeminist disruptions in the jazz poetry of Jayne Cortez -- Shape-shifting: the urban geographies of Wanda Coleman's jazz poetry -- Jazz's word for it: Harryette Mullen and the politics of intellectualism -- Conclusion: "Too many books for our eyes": future politics, future poetries