No Eyes: Lester Young - David Meltzer - Books - David R. Godine Publisher Inc - 9781574231298 - June 1, 2000
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In 1959, at the age of fifty, tenor man Lester Young a lyrical player, his airy tone haunted by a breathy melancholy died alone in the Arvin Hotel in Manhattan. David Meltzer's latest book is a poetic meditation on the last year of Young's life, a year of joyful playing and self-willed dying, of creation and negation. But what do "eyes" and "no eyes" mean? In hipster's parlance: "To see or not to see, to be or not to be, to do or to die." As Meltzer explains, "No Eyes is a book about death, and Young sits in for a metaphor for the artist living and dying for and with his art."

200 pages, b&w photographs

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 1, 2000
ISBN13 9781574231298
Publishers David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Pages 200
Dimensions 152 × 228 × 225 mm   ·   272 g
Language English  

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