{"id":19063,"date":"2017-01-07T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/?p=19063"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:13:34","slug":"ted-joans-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/ted-joans-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted JOANS – USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ted Joans was born in Cairo Illinois, USA in 1928, he died in 2003. He is a poet, traveler, film-maker, painter, musician, collector, photographer, vegeterian and a lover.He has confessed: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab jazz is my religion and surrealism is my point of view\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The below extract was published in the collection of poems (in English) 'Double Trouble' by Ted Joans and Hart Leroy Bibbs, by \u00e9ditions Revue Noire-Bleu Outremer 1992, out of print).<\/p>\n

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Writings : 'Funky Jazz Poems' (1959) (New York, Rhino Review) ; 'Beat Poems' (1959) ; 'All of T.J. and No More' (1959)(New York, Excelsior) ; 'The Truth' (1960) ; 'The Hipsters' (1961) (New York, Corinth) ; 'A Black Pow-Wow Of Jazz Poems' (1969) (New York, Hill & Wang) ; 'Afrodisia' (1970) (New York, Hill & Wang) ; 'A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose' (1971) (London, Calder & Boyars) ; 'Vergriffen' oder: Blitzliebe poems (1979) (Kassel, Loose Bl\u00e4tter Presse) ; 'The Aardvark Watcher' (1980) (Berlin, LCB-Editionen) ; 'Sure, Really Is' (1982) (Sidmouth, Transformaction) ; 'Double Trouble' by Ted Joans and Hart Leroy Bibbs (1992) (Revue Noire-Bleu Outremer) ; 'Honey Spoon' (1993) (Paris, Handshake Press) ; 'Okapi Passion' (1994) (Berkeley, Ishmael Reed Publishing) ; 'Wow' (1998) with\u00a0Laura Corsiglia (Muckileo, Quartermoon) ; 'Teducation\u00a0: Selected Poems' (1999) (Coffee House Press) ; 'In Thursday Sane' (2001) (Davis, CA, Swan Scythe Press); 'Our Thang : Several Poems, Several Drawings', with\u00a0Laura Corsiglia (2001) (Victoria,CA Ekstasis Editions)<\/p>\n

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Anathema of Erection<\/span><\/h1>\n

[published in RN 05 in June 1992 and in 'Double Trouble', original text written in English]<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In Gdansk it is against the law<\/span><\/p>\n

to place your penis<\/span><\/p>\n

on the shoulder<\/span><\/p>\n

of a married man<\/span><\/p>\n

Or a married woman<\/span><\/p>\n

in the month of March<\/span><\/p>\n

On crowded metros<\/span><\/p>\n

The Protruding Causes Brooding<\/span><\/p>\n

and Is In No Way Soothing to the victim<\/span><\/p>\n

...<\/span><\/p>\n

In Adelaide on public transports<\/span><\/p>\n

but not taxis or rented limos<\/span><\/p>\n

men above the age of 18 years can<\/span><\/p>\n

legally play with their penis<\/span><\/p>\n

IF their hand is in a pocket<\/span><\/p>\n

without a hole in it HOWEVER<\/span><\/p>\n

this does not apply to the<\/span><\/p>\n

back pocket there it is forbidden<\/span><\/p>\n

The Protruding Causes Brooding and<\/span><\/p>\n

Is In No Way Soothing to Onlookers<\/span><\/p>\n

...<\/span><\/p>\n

In Indianapolis if any woman or girl<\/span><\/p>\n

older than 12 years are caught in the<\/span><\/p>\n

act of drawing in public places<\/span><\/p>\n

an image of a boy or a man with an<\/span><\/p>\n

erected penis a drawing done in any<\/span><\/p>\n

style be it ancient Egypt Classic Greek<\/span><\/p>\n

or Roman or even in a modern manner<\/span><\/p>\n

such as Mondrian or Jackson Pollack<\/span><\/p>\n

She can be prosecuted to the fullest<\/span><\/p>\n

extent of the Indianapolis Law because<\/span><\/p>\n

The Protruding Causes Brooding and<\/span><\/p>\n

Is In No Way Soothing to the public<\/span><\/p>\n

...<\/span><\/p>\n

The Public Region of Masculinity<\/span><\/p>\n

has nothing to do with institutional<\/span><\/p>\n

obscenity nevertheless the anathema<\/span><\/p>\n

of erection prevails yet there shall<\/span><\/p>\n

never be a penis-erection-thaw thus it<\/span><\/p>\n

remains high way above institutional law.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ted Joans,\u00a0February 31, 1991<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

extract from 'Double Trouble' 1992<\/em><\/p>\n

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***<\/p>\n

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Ted Joans, writer from Cairo, Illinois, USA. ‘Anathema of Erection ‘ extract from ‘Double Trouble’, Revue Noire publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,64],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22564,"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19063\/revisions\/22564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}