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DEATH OF CHET BAKER by MILLER WILLIAMS

Poem Explanation

First Line: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN AMAZING GRACE %AND GREAT BALLS OF FIRE WE
Last Line: AND FELL BACK TO EARTH AGAIN. %THE BODY HERE BENEATH THIS STONE %WAS CHET BAKER, WHO HAS FLOWN
Subject(s): BAKER, CHET (1929-1988); JAZZ; MUSIC AND MUSICIANS;

Poem Sources:

THE SECOND SET; THE JAZZ POETRY ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME 2.
  FEINSTEIN, SASCHA, & KOMUNYAKAA, YUSEF (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
ADJUSTING TO THE LIGHT.
  WILLIAMS, MILLER
  (1992)
 
SOME JAZZ A WHILE; COLLECTED POEMS.
  WILLIAMS, MILLER
  (1999)
 



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