Music Without Walls
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2027
San Francisco's Poet Laureate offers an impassioned insider's personal homage to America's indigenous music, jazz.
"Her poetry is a flame of truth, joy, compassion—she points to the roads we must take to bring about change and unity. I consider Genny as a key poet for the future."—Juan Felipe Herrera, MacArthur Fellow, Poet Laureate of the USA Emeritus
Music Without Walls is a love poem and praise song for the pioneers of the indigenous American music genre called jazz. As Lim frames it, jazz is the soundtrack and the musical metaphor of our country's confrontations with race through time, and the poems collected here pay homage to many of the innovators, such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and others. Lim's poems capture the essence of their music and of her own personal experience as a listener and a collaborator who has performed onstage with some of the jazz greats, such as Max Roach, Herbie Lewis, Francis Wong, and Jong Jang. This collection will resonate with those already familiar with the music itself and the stories and styles of its various heroes, while readers who are new to them will find a welcoming doorway to an exciting new world.
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Genny Lim is the 9th and current San Francisco Poet Laureate, and former San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She is the recipient of two lifetime achievement awards from PEN Oakland and the city of Berkeley, California. She translated into English over a hundred poems written by former Chinese immigrants detained on Angel Island under the Chinese Exclusion Act in Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940. As SF Poet Laureate, in 2025, Lim helped inaugurate the city's first Youth Poet Laureate Cohort program with the San Francisco Public Library. She currently curates the Living Poets Society Reading Series throughout the city's branch libraries. Lim has collaborated with numerous musicians including, Max Roach, Meshell Ndegeocello, Del Sol Quartet, Destiny Muhammad, Marcus Shelby, Francis Wong, Jon Jang, and with local muralist, Juana Alicia. She lives in San Francisco, California.