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Ostinato Vamps

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082297987X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Ostinato Vamps written by Wanda Coleman and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2003-10-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostinato Vamps is Wanda Coleman's first book of poetry since the demise of her longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press. It continues and enlarges the traits that have been her hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line underneath her stanzas. Linguistically daring, lyrically breathtaking, stylistically bold, these poems both explore familiar territory and shatter stereotypes. Life is difficult, often unfair, but it belongs to the living, as Coleman reminds us in no uncertain terms. Racing between an earthy eroticism and fatalistic despair, filled with humor and tragedy, these poems are alive. They breathe. They challenge us even as they reward us for seeking the truth.

the déjà vu

Author : Gabrielle Civil
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566896312
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book the déjà vu written by Gabrielle Civil and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions. Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the déjà vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir. As Civil considers Haitian tourist paintings, dance rituals, race at the movies, black feminist legacies, and more, she reflects on her personal losses and desires, speculates on black time, and dreams into expansive black life. With intimacy, humor, and verve, the déjà vu blurs boundaries between memory, grief, and love; then, now, and the future.

Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen

Author : Malin Pereira
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033734X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen written by Malin Pereira and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells previously in print. Largely published since 1980, each of these poets has at least four books. Their influence on new generations of poets has been wide-reaching. The work of this group, says Pereira, is a departure from the previous generation's proscriptive manifestos in favor of more inclusive voices, perspectives, and techniques. Although these poets reject a rigid adherence to a specific black aesthetic, their work just as effectively probes racism, stereotyping, and racial politics. Unlike Amiri Baraka's claim in "Home" that he becomes blacker and blacker, positioning race as a defining essence, these poets imagine a plurality of ideas about the relationship between blackness and black poetry. They question the idea of an established literary canon defining black literature. For these poets, Pereira says, the idea of "home" is found both in black poetry circles and in the wider transnational community of literature. A Sarah Mills Hodge Foundation Publication.

Healing for the Soul

Author : Braxton D. Shelley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197566464
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Healing for the Soul written by Braxton D. Shelley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Gospel : An Introduction -- "A Balm In Gilead" : "Tuning Up" and the Gospel Imagination -- The Moment That Changed Everything : Gospel Music and the Incarnation of Time -- "The Evidence of Things Not Seen" : Gospel Vamps and the Incarnation of Text -- The Pursuit of Intensity : A Formal Theory of the Gospel Vamp.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

Author : Gloria McMillan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000413977
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class written by Gloria McMillan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.

Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12: 2002

Author : Edward Berger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810850057
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12: 2002 written by Edward Berger and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This twelfth volume of the Annual Review celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute of Jazz Studies and features articles covering subjects which have not been engaged in past issues of the Review. Gil Evans, Django Reinhardt, Lucky Thompson, and Paul Bley each receive much deserved critical attention in this issue. This issue also includes a photo gallery illustrating some of the prominant locations and people of the Institute's history, both in New York and at its present home at Rutgers in Newark, New Jersey.

Jazz Journeys to Japan

Author : William Minor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113453
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Journeys to Japan written by William Minor and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One author's personal odyssey through the jazz scene in Japan

Watch Your Language

Author : Terrance Hayes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143137735
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Watch Your Language written by Terrance Hayes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry—to be published simultaneously with his latest poetry collection, So to Speak Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brilliant contemplations of personal, canonical, and allegorical literary development. Proceeding from Toni Morrison's aim to expand the landscape of literary imagination in Playing in the Dark ("I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography"), Watch Your Language charts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical act of watching your language. Hayes has made a kind of poetic guidebook with more questions than answers. "If you don't see suffering's potential as art, will it remain suffering?" he asks in one of the lively mock poetry exam questions of this musing, mercurial collection. Hayes's astonishing drawings and essays literally and figuratively map the acclaimed poet's routes, roots, and wanderings through the landscape of contemporary poetry.

The World Falls Away

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978334
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The World Falls Away written by Wanda Coleman and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burnings from which Coleman culls her work casts a glow and unique warmth that invites the reader to sit by her metaphorical hearth, to laugh and enjoy their “conversation.” The contemplative and philosophical have entered her voice as she continues to explore the conflicts and confusions that shape the aesthetic terrain of Southern California and beyond—as she continues to grapple with cultural bias, malignant domestic neglect, poverty, and the damages of racism, yet broadening her palette of social ills to include the privacies of grief, loss and transcendence. A nominee and finalist for Poet Laureate of California, she continues to reflect the ethnic scramble of Los Angeles, where she has been honored by proclamations from the city’s elected officials, including the mayor’s office, the city council and the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Break, Blow, Burn

Author : Camille Paglia
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425096
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Break, Blow, Burn written by Camille Paglia and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.

Poetry Los Angeles

Author : Laurence Goldstein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052241
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Poetry Los Angeles written by Laurence Goldstein and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the poetry of one of America’s most populous and fascinating cities, with poems spanning from 1942 to 2012

Wicked Enchantment

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : Godine+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1574232347
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Enchantment written by Wanda Coleman and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality—here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman. One of the most talked about literary collections of the year is this collection by a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity about her life on the margins. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of Coleman’s poems spanning four decades, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Although Coleman was rejected by the literary elites during her lifetime, here’s what people are saying now about Wicked Enchantment: “Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent.” —The Washington Post “These poems are wildly fun and inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every human experience and emotion.” —The New York Times “Wanda Coleman’s work has that ineffable quality that accompanies poetry you understand in your belly and your head. . . . It is an unmistakable style that propels a Coleman poem, and draws us into it.” —Reginald Dwayne Betts “Wicked Enchantment has words to crack you open and heal you where it counts—hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent.” —Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author “One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A.” —The New Yorker “One of the most exciting, original, deliciously dangerous voices of the 20th century.” —The Irish Times “Required Reading” —Bustle “Best Poetry of 2020” The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Irish Times Winner California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s 2020 Golden Poppy Award for Poetry

Jazz & Twelve O'clock Tales

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1574232126
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Jazz & Twelve O'clock Tales written by Wanda Coleman and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets who can write prose that equals their poetry are rare. With this collection of thirteen new short stories, Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles's unofficial poet laureate, proves an exception to the rule yet again. The characters in these stories lead lonely lives full of longing, of potential stifled by racism, poverty, and absurd accidents of fate. And yet, even though they are trapped by the present moment, their inner lives are lush, a mirror of the city of angels in which they live, a metropolis, always simmering, as Coleman writes in the final story, ever waiting to be borne on that balmy promised crescendo. Coleman applies a poet's economy of words to her fiction, setting a scene with lightning-quick strokes, letting a detail, a dialogue, or the brisk vernacular speak for itself. .

The Riot Inside Me

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574232004
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Riot Inside Me written by Wanda Coleman and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Riot Inside Me finds the author at the bloody crossroads where art and politics, the personal and the political, and Southern California and the wider world meet and trade blows before resuming their separate paths. The twenty-five items gathered here - a "hopscotch" of essays, memoirs, interviews, journal entries, letters, and reports - are divided into four sections. One collects intimate autobiographical pieces, including a moving portrait of her late first husband, a moth drawn to the flames of the more extreme forms of '60s radicalism. Another is reserved for polemics, mainly issues of Black, White, Brown, and Yellow. A third reprints Coleman's infamous "bad" review of Maya Angelou's A Song Flung Up to Heaven - "the most controversial piece I've written" - and a caustically funny report on its fallout. The book concludes with a group of essays on racial violence, poetry and the post-9/11 mindset, topical pieces that are sardonic when it comes to politics and groups but, like all of Coleman's writing, tender and hopeful when it comes to individuals."--BOOK JACKET.

American Poetry Now

Author : Ed Ochester
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978180
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book American Poetry Now written by Ed Ochester and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2007-04-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suárez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others. Throughout its forty-year history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style. American Poetry Now is a true representation of contemporary American poetry. Ed Ochester, series editor for nearly thirty years, has assembled a quintessential selection-along with biographies and photos, an enlightening introduction, and a suggested list for further reading, all in a highly accessible format. American Poetry Now is a sweeping anthology that will delight poetry fans, students, teachers, and general readers alike.

Greatest Hits, 1966-2003

Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : Pudding House Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781930755192
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Greatest Hits, 1966-2003 written by Wanda Coleman and published by Pudding House Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 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.