Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015013121812
Heavy Daughter Blues
Wanda Coleman
Heavy Daughter Blues
Heavy Daughter Blues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Heavy Daughter Blues book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The American Poet at the Movies
Laurence Goldstein
Author : Laurence Goldstein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 047208318X
The American Poet at the Movies by Laurence Goldstein Pdf
A timely and engaging exploration of cinema's influence on verse--a treat for poetry lovers and film buffs alike
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class
Gloria McMillan
Author : Gloria McMillan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000413977
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class by Gloria McMillan Pdf
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.
Blues Poems
Kevin Young
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375414589
Blues Poems by Kevin Young Pdf
Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.
Wicked Enchantment
Wanda Coleman
Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : Godine+ORM
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781574232349
Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman Pdf
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
Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen
Malin Pereira
Author : Malin Pereira
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337340
Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen by Malin Pereira Pdf
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.
Bruise Theory
Natalie Kenvin
Author : Natalie Kenvin
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1880238217
Bruise Theory by Natalie Kenvin Pdf
Chosen by renowned poet Carolyn Forche as a finalist in the 1993 AWP Series in Poetry, Bruise Theory is Natalie Kenvin's debut poetry collection. Compact and powerful, her poems fly like small fists. They address emotional illness, mother-daughter relationships, friendship and erotic love, physical abuse, and the strength it takes to endure. These poems reveal Kenvin's extraordinary sympathy for her subjects - from her daughter in the throes of emotional illness to the bold figure of the character Sweetie.
Greatest Hits, 1966-2003
Wanda Coleman
Author : Wanda Coleman
Publisher : Pudding House Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1930755198
Greatest Hits, 1966-2003 by Wanda Coleman Pdf
Animating Black and Brown Liberation
Michael Datcher
Author : Michael Datcher
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438473413
Animating Black and Brown Liberation by Michael Datcher Pdf
Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation. Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool—ankhing—enables Michael Datcher to examine the ways African American and Latinx literatures respond to and ultimately work to resist hegemonic forces of neoliberalism and state-sponsored oppression. Weaving together close readings and politically informed philosophical reflection, Datcher considers the work of writer-activists Toni Cade Bambara, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, June Jordan, Salvador Plascencia, and Ishmael Reed, in light of theoretical interventions by Jane Bennett, Mel Y. Chen, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Paulo Freire, and Erica R. Edwards. How, he asks, can cultural production positively influence Black and Brown material conditions and mobilize collective action “off the page”? How can art-based counterpublics provide a foundation for Black and Brown community organizing? What emerges from Datcher’s innovative analysis is a frank assessment of the links between embodied experiences of racialization, as well as a distinctive vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature as a repository of emancipatory strategies with real-world applications. Michael Datcher is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of several books, including Raising Fences.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry
Craig Svonkin,Steven Gould Axelrod
Author : Craig Svonkin,Steven Gould Axelrod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350062511
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry by Craig Svonkin,Steven Gould Axelrod Pdf
With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry covers such topics as: · Major histories and genealogies of post-war poetry – from the language poets and the Black Arts Movement to New York school and the Beats · Poetry, identity and community – from African American, Chicana/o and Native American poetry to Queer verse and the poetics of disability · Key genres and forms – including digital, visual, documentary and children's poetry · Central critical themes – economics, publishing, popular culture, ecopoetics, translation and biography The book also includes an interview section in which major contemporary poets such as Rae Armantrout, and Claudia Rankine reflect on the craft and value of poetry today.
Literature and Race in Los Angeles
Julian Murphet
Author : Julian Murphet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052180535X
Literature and Race in Los Angeles by Julian Murphet Pdf
This is a study of the treatment of the city, specifically LA, in contemporary writing.
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature
Angelyn Mitchell,Danille K. Taylor
Author : Angelyn Mitchell,Danille K. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521858885
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by Angelyn Mitchell,Danille K. Taylor Pdf
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
City Poems and American Urban Crisis
Nate Mickelson
Author : Nate Mickelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350055797
City Poems and American Urban Crisis by Nate Mickelson Pdf
From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algarín and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America's changing urban experience since 1945. City Poems and American Urban Crisis brings post-war American poetry into conversation with developments in city planning, activism, and urban theory to demonstrate that taking city poetry seriously as a mode of analysis and critique can enhance our attempts to produce more just and equitable urban futures. Poets covered include: Miguel Algarín, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wanda Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis MacAdams, Charles Olson, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams.
Identity Lessons
Maria Mazziotti Gillan,Jennifer Gillan
Author : Maria Mazziotti Gillan,Jennifer Gillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101144176
Identity Lessons by Maria Mazziotti Gillan,Jennifer Gillan Pdf
In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide array of ethnic perspectives on growing up in America. Leading the reader into the living-rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and movie houses of America, distinguished writers from all points of the American ethnic landscape shed light on the space between conformity and difference, and examine the struggle between the need to belong and the pull of one's cultural roots. With insight, wit, and poignancy, the contributors to this anthology recall their attempts to reconcile family from the old country with the powerful messages about race, gender and class confronting them in their new surroundings. A collection of superb and moving writing, Identity Lessons deconstructs conceptions of personal and national identity, and forms an indispensable primer for understanding our cultural selves.
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
Europa Publications
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1787 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135355197
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 by Europa Publications Pdf
The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.