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Afro-American Poetics

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299115043
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Afro-American Poetics written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baker envisages the mission of black culture since the 1920s as "Afro-American spirit work." In the blues, the post-modernist "chant poem," the oratory of Malcolm X and the political plays of Amiri Baraka, Baker notes the unfolding creation of a "racial epic" in which black Americans may discover their place in U.S. society and find their ancestral roots. He analyzes Jean Toomer's stream-of-consciousness protest novel Cane, ponders why apolitical poet Countee Cullen became a voice of the people and pays tribute to critic-poet Larry Neal and to Hoyt Fuller, the editor of Negro Digest who allied himself with the Black Arts movement. He also traces his own shift from "guerrilla theater revolutionary" to embattled theoretician. ISBN 0-299-11500-3: $22.50 (For use only in the library).

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776513X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of African American Poetry written by Michael S. Harper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.

Afro-modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown

Author : Mark A. Sanders
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820320502
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Afro-modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown written by Mark A. Sanders and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth century. This study redefines the relationship between modernism and the New Negro era in light of Brown’s uniquely hybrid poetry and vision of a heterodox, pluralist modernism. Brown, also a folklorist and critic, saw the Harlem Renaissance and modernism as interactive rather than mutually exclusive and perceived the New Negro era as the dawning of African American modernity. Reading Brown’s three collections of poetry in light of their respective historical contexts, Sanders examines the ways in which Brown reconfigured black being and created alternative conceptual space for African Americans amid the prevailing racial discourses of American culture. Brown’s poetics call for revised conceptions of the Harlem Renaissance, black identity, artistic expression, and modernity that recognize the range, depth, and complexity of African American life.

Renegade Poetics

Author : Evie Shockley
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380584
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Renegade Poetics written by Evie Shockley and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with a deceptively simple question--what do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as "black"?--Evie Shockley's Renegade poetics teases out the more complex and nuanced possibilities the concept has long encompassed. She redefines black aesthetics descriptively, resituating innovative poetry that has been marginalized becuase it was not "recognizably black" and avant-garde poetry dismissed because it was"--Back cover.

A History of African American Poetry

Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035473
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A History of African American Poetry written by Lauri Ramey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

Workings of the Spirit

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035239
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Workings of the Spirit written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.

African-American Poetry

Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111458
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book African-American Poetry written by Joan R. Sherman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.

Invisible Poets

Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Poets written by Joan R. Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Nature

Author : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334316
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Black Nature written by Camille T. Dungy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.

I, Too, Sing America

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395895993
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book I, Too, Sing America written by Catherine Clinton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.

Words with Wings

Author : Belinda Rochelle
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Words with Wings written by Belinda Rochelle and published by Collins. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.

Trouble the Water

Author : Jerry Washington Ward
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451628640
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Trouble the Water written by Jerry Washington Ward and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1997 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting refrain of the anonymous spiritual "Were You Dere?," the classic rhymes of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Bury Me in a Free Land," the jazz beat of Maya Angelou's "Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition," and the exquisite balance of Etheridge Knight's haikus-the entire rich and varied tradition of African-American poetry appears in this superb anthology, unified throughout by the authenticity of experiences wrung straight from the soul.Trouble the Water, the first collection to cover close to 300 years of poetic achievement in 400 important works by African-American writers, features women as half the contributors and includes nearly 50 poems from the 1980s and 1990s.

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

Author : Howard Rambsy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472035681
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Jazz Griots

Author : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739166743
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Griots written by Jean-Philippe Marcoux and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is about how four representative African American poets in the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra’s David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement’s Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of African griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and Black History, and in so doing narrate, using jazz as meta-language, genealogies, etymologies, cultural legacies, and Black (hi)stories. In intersecting and complementary ways, Hughes, Henderson, Sanchez, and Baraka fashioned their griotism from theorizations of artistry as political engagement, and, in turn, formulated a Black aesthetic based on jazz performativity –a series of jazz-infused iterations that form a complex pattern of literary, musical, historical, and political moments in constant cross-fertilizing dialogues with one another. This form of poetic call-and-response is essential for it allows the possibility of intergenerational dialogues between poets and musicians as well as dialogical potential between song and politics, between Africa and Black America, within the poems. More importantly, these jazz dialogisms underline the construction of the Black Aesthetic as conceptualized respectively by the griotism of Hughes, of Henderson, and of Sanchez and Baraka.

African-American Poets

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438134363
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book African-American Poets written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume;examines contemporary African-American poets from the well-known writers of the late 20th century to the newly established and emerging voices of today.

The Black Poets

Author : Dudley Randall
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553275631
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Black Poets written by Dudley Randall and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1985-04-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

Author : Howard Rambsy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047290101X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry written by Howard Rambsy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement’s authors. The book also describes the role of the Black Arts Movement in reintroducing readers to poets such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the writing and editing practices of its participants. Howard Rambsy II demonstrates how significant circulation and format of black poetic texts—not simply their content—were to the formation of an artistic movement. The book goes on to examine other significant influences on the formation of Black Arts discourse, including such factors as an emerging nationalist ideology and figures such as John Coltrane and Malcolm X.