The furious flowering of African American poetry

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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gabbin, Joanne V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, c1999.
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Table of 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
  • Langston 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
  • 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.

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