Ahsahta Press publishes so many cool books. I had not heard of Charles Hartman before I read about this book on their website. Apparently much of Hartman's work is related to and inspired by jazz. Here's one about Miles Davis:
Flamenco Sketches: Miles
Still fall
Another drift of sunshine
A day, and then some
No need for snow
Strange creatures scaled down
We tune a canny ear to the unmoved hour
Strung high, the icy cloud sings of a blue trapped in a blue
And so: too
Off on one hand the rind of an undiscarded moon
Off-season fields lie paralyzed for some Persephone
Her place held firm by a zero
Between's return
Then again, the spring's wound one way
by Charles O. Hartman
from his new book New & Selected Poems
published by Ahsahta Press
Robin Reagler 