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By Quincy Troupe (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780764349744 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, November 28, 2015, cover price $60.00

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By Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler Rivas (contributor) and Quincy Troupe (contributor)

Paperback:

9780829701500 | Harpercollins Christian Pub, May 5, 2015, cover price $17.99

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Product Description: Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling freefloatingimprovisations...read more
By Quincy Troupe (contributor)

Hardcover:

9781609615611 | Rodale Pr, April 23, 2013, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree.

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Hardcover:

9781566892834 | Coffee House Pr, January 24, 2012, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781566892766 | Coffee House Pr, January 24, 2012, cover price $16.00

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By Quincy Troupe (contributor)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781609987817 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, February 14, 2012), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life.Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back...read more
By Miles Davis, Dion Graham (narrator) and Quincy Troupe (contributor)

CD/Spoken Word:

9780792784814 | Unabridged edition (Sound Library, February 1, 2012), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world.

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In a candid memoir, a successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to life on the streets as a homeless man with a small toddler in tow, to his triumphant battle to the top as a self-made millionaire.

Hardcover:

9780060744861 | Amistad Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In a candid memoir, a successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to life on the streets as a homeless man with a small toddler in tow, to his triumphant battle to the top as a self-made millionaire.

Paperback:

9780060744878 | Amistad Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In a candid memoir, a successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to life on the streets as a homeless man with a small toddler in tow, to his triumphant battle to the top as a self-made millionaire.
9780061120671 | Large print edition (William Morrow & Co, June 30, 2006), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In a candid, intensely personal memoir, a successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to life on the streets as a homeless man with a small toddler in tow, to his triumphant battle to the top as a self-made millionaire.

Miscellaneous:

9780061750588 | Harpercollins, March 17, 2009, cover price $10.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9780060897888 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, June 1, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In a candid memoir, a successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to life on the streets as a homeless man with a small toddler in tow, to his triumphant battle to the top as a self-made millionaire.

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"Troupe's poems resemble Romare Bearden's collages: muscular and colorful."-North American Review In the Whitmanic tradition, Quincy Troupe's poetry explodes from the page, capturing the spirit of America. Inspired by contemporary art, music, literature, and sports, The Architecture of Language dismantles the dangerously clichéd, wooden rhetoric saturating our national discourse and rebuilds the language in poems bursting with beauty, energy, and enough imaginative fire to light the way to the future.

Hardcover:

9781566891899 | Coffee House Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Troupe's poems resemble Romare Bearden's collages: muscular and colorful.

Paperback:

9781566891905 | Coffee House Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $15.00

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A poetic celebration relates the true story of a boy who lost his sight shortly after birth, grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and became one of the twentieth century's most creative and influential musicians--an instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, musical innovator, and cultural activist. Includes a CD of two Stevie Wonder hit songs.
By Lisa Cohen (illustrator) and Quincy Troupe

School and Library:

9780618340606 | Rei/com edition (Houghton Mifflin, April 4, 2005), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A poem tribute to blind musician and composer Stevie Wonder.

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Jazz and hip-hop elements inform a collection of poems celebrating the moments of everyday modern living that somehow capture the elemental energy of life, while at the same time mourning the very transient nature of those moments. Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Original.
By Kyle Dargan and Quincy Troupe (foreword by)

Paperback:

9780820326610 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 20, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Jazz and hip-hop elements inform a collection of poems celebrating the moments of everyday modern living that somehow capture the elemental energy of life, while at the same time mourning the very transient nature of those moments.

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Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Quincy Troupe’s award-winning poetry is pure rhythm and deep bass beats that barely stay on the page. This magnificent new volume captures Troupe’s voice stronger than ever as he issues celebratory and pointed statements on jazz, sports, love, art, literature, American life, and the sublimity of it all.Winner of a Peabody and two American Book Awards, Quincy Troupe has published several books of poetry and two bestselling books about Miles Davis. He is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9781566891370 | 1 edition (Coffee House Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Quincy Troupe’s award-winning poetry is pure rhythm and deep bass beats that barely stay on the page.

Paperback:

9781566891356 | 1 edition (Coffee House Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780520216242 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: An award-winning author and poet offers a unique appreciation and portrait of one of the century's greatest musicians, capturing the many facets of Miles Davis's brilliant and difficult nature, and chronicling his own growth through his friendship with Davis.

Paperback:

9780520234710 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship.

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A lyrical tribute to the basketball star celebrates his achievements on the court and in his personal life, as presented by an American Book Award for Poetry winner. By the author of Miles: The Autobiography.
By Shane W. Evans (illustrator) and Quincy Troupe

Hardcover:

9780786805105 | Hyperion, September 1, 2000, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A poetic celebration of Magic Johnson and his quicksilver moments of triumph on the basketball court.

Library:

9780786824465 | Jump at the Sun, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A poetic celebration of Magic Johnson and his quicksilver moments of triumph on the basketball court.

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Product Description: Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses. Merging traditional poetic form with contemporary content, Troupe fashions "words & sounds that build bridges toward a new tongue" , as he writes in "Song," an ars poetica...read more

Hardcover:

9781566890922 | Coffee House Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses.

Paperback:

9781566890908 | Coffee House Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses.

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Hardcover:

9780863160035 | Writers & Readers, December 1, 1991, cover price $22.00

Paperback:

9780863161087 | Writers & Readers, November 1, 1996, cover price $14.00

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Product Description: A collection of poetry about men, women, jazz, and American life.

Hardcover:

9781566890458 | Coffee House Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry about men, women, jazz, and American life.

Paperback:

9781566890441 | Coffee House Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry about men, women, jazz, and American life.

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By Michael Read (editor) and Quincy Troupe

Paperback:

9780933286634 | Friends of Photography Bookstore, January 1, 1994, cover price $18.95

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Hardcover:

9780863160028 | Black Butterfly Children, May 1, 1990, cover price $14.95

Paperback:

9780863161025 | Writers & Readers, April 1, 1991, cover price $8.95

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A collection of tributes from the friends and colleagues of a great writer and social critic include the words of Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, William Styron, Alex Haley, and others, as well as key selections from his writings
By Quincy Troupe (editor)

Paperback:

9780671676513 | Touchstone Books, March 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of tributes from the friends and colleagues of a great writer and social critic include the words of Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, William Styron, Alex Haley, and others, as well as key selections from his writings

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Paperback:

9780918408112 | Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub, June 1, 1979, cover price $5.95

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Product Description: Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state of California. Presentation copy, inscribed with a warm note to Dr. Hans Fehling, signed, and dated 1972, the year of publication...read more

Paperback:

9780879290207 | 2 edition (Barlenmir House, June 1, 1976), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state of California.

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