The Cambridge history of African American poetry / edited by Keith D. Leonard.

Other author Leonard, Keith D., 1969
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Descriptionpages cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Cambridge Histories Online: Full Collection
Subjects
American poetry--African American authors. --History and criticism.

Contents An origin story / Lauri Scheyer -- Phillis Wheatley Peters's America / Vincent Carretta -- "Bury me in a free land" : Black abolitionist poetics / Matt Sandler -- Black periodical poetics, 1859-1909 / Eric Gardner -- Landscapes and local color in the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Margaret Ronda -- Postbellum dreams : A generation of Black women poets / Carlyn Ena Ferrari -- A question of form : The sonnet / Timo Müller -- Harlem's sensuous poetics / Shane Vogel -- The long shadow of Langston Hughes / W. Jason Miller -- All that jazz : Black music as muse / Michael Borshuk -- African American poets and the left / James Smethurst -- The legacies of Gwendolyn Brooks / Joanne V. Gabbin -- The Society of Umbra and the countercultures / Jean-Philippe Marcoux -- The literary lives of Amiri Baraka / William J. Harris -- The Black Arts Movement poetics of space : North and South / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Black Arts women on wax / Michael J. New -- Not a luxury : Black feminist poetics / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- A Black cosmopolitan poetics / Malin Pereira -- A question of form : Jazz in Jones, Kaufman, and Cortez / David Grundy -- African American ecopoetry / Marta Werbanowska -- Poetry and diaspora / Anthony Reed -- Anthologizing Black poetry, 1922-2022 / Howard Rambsy II -- The sisterhood and its legacies / Courtney Thorsson -- "An avant-garde thing" : The African American Writers' Collective / Keith D. Leonard -- What Cave Canem means : An aesthetic history / Evie Shockley -- Furious flowering : Black poetry and institutional durability / Kimberly Quiogue Andrews -- Historical poetry in the twenty-first century / Annette Debo -- In the national spotlight : Awards, inaugurations, resistance / McKinley Melton -- A question of form : Elegy in the Black Lives Matter era / Emily Ruth Rutter -- Not just citizen : African American lineages of formal renovation / Meta DuEwa Jones -- Hip-hop poetics / Sequoia Maner -- Black digital poetics / DaMaris B. Hill -- Poetics and being / Kevin Quashie.
Abstract "Provides both scholars and general readers of African American poetry with a comprehensive history written by the leading scholars in the field focused on the unifying world-building practices of community and artistry. It conveys the stories of individual well-known figures in new ways and introduces less-well known writers and movements"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2026028658
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