The furious flowering of African American poetry / edited by Joanne V. Gabbin.

Other author Gabbin, Joanne V.
Format Book
Publication InfoCharlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Descriptionx, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
American poetry--African American authors. --History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.

Contents Introduction : essays and conversations in African American poetry / Joanne V. Gabbin -- Langson Hughes : a poet supreme / Kalamu Ya Salaam -- Message to the generations : the mythic hero in Sterling Brown's poetry / Eugenia Collier -- Langson Hughes and Melville Tolson : blues people / Mariann Russell -- Bardic memory and witness in the poetry of Samuel Allen / Edward A. Scott - Rooted displacement in form : Rita Dove's sonnet cycle Mother love / Therese Steffen -- Conversation / Michael S. Harper and Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Conversation / Eugene Redmond and Jabari Asim -- Bantu, Nkodi, Ndungu, and Nganga : language, politics, music, and religion in African American Poetry / Joyce A. Joyce -- Ballad, the hero, and the ride : a reading of Sterling A. Brown's The last ride of Wild Bill / Mark A. Sanders -- Illocutionary dimensions of poetry : Lee's "A poem to complement other poems" / Jerry W. Ward Jr. -- Conversation / Amirir Baraka and Askia Touré -- t Consciousness, myth and transcendence : symbolic action in three poems on the slave trade / Jon Woodson -- Alice Walker : poesy and the earthling psyche / Ikenna Dieke -- "Calligraphy of black chant" : resiting African American poetries / Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Conversation / Sherley Anne Williams and Deborah McDowell -- African American epic poetry : the long foreshadowing / Raymond R. Patterson -- Personal and public : three first-person voices in African American poetry / Eric A. Weil -- Conversation / Margaret Alexander Walker and Joanne V. Gabbin -- Blooming in the whirlwind : the early poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks / Joanne V. Gabbin -- Conversation / Gwendolyn Brooks and B. Denise Hawkins -- Song of herself : Lucille Clifton's poems about womanhood / Hilary Holladay -- "Flashbacks through the heart" : Yusef Komunyakaa and the poetry of self-assertion / Angela M. Salas -- What is this new thing? / Jabari Asim.
Local noteLittle-328749--305131021962X
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98051964
ISBN0813918405 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813918413 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS310.B53 F87 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold