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Toi Derricotte
I Book PDF

Author : Toi Derricotte
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822945665

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Toi Derricotte’s story is a hero’s journey—a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. “I”: New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet’s inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy. It is a record of one woman’s response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, color, gender, and sexuality. Each poem is an act of victory as the author finds her way through repressive forces to speak with beauty and truth. This collection features more than thirty new poems as well as selections from five previous collections.

Catch the Fire!!!

Tony Medina
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Author : Tony Medina
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015040179445

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A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry

Modern African American Poets

Yasser K. R. Aman
Modern African American Poets Book PDF

Author : Yasser K. R. Aman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527520554

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Modern African American Poets by Yasser K. R. Aman Pdf

This book consists of eight chapters covering poets from the Harlem Renaissance until the present day. It considers the Harlem Renaissance poets Hughes and Cullen from new perspectives, with regards to two psychological types: self-acceptance and self-dejection. The first two chapters discuss Hughes’ and Cullen’s expression of race relations and the way they protest. Chapter three on Roscoe C. Jamison represents unheard voices, while the fourth chapter, focusing on Ai, analyzes multi-ethnic roots and dissects American society, highlighting the reasons for violence and sexual hunger. Chapter five on Nikky Finney, a representative of Affrilachian poetry and a political activist, focuses on different social and political issues. Chapters six and seven discuss the application of Dual Inheritance Theory on African American and Afro-German poetry. Chapter eight tackles the ongoing effort of redefining black womanhood, with specific emphasis on Morgan Parker.

African-American Poets

Harold Bloom
African American Poets Book PDF

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781438134369

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African-American Poets by Harold Bloom Pdf

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.

Magical Negro

Morgan Parker
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Author : Morgan Parker
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781947793194

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Magical Negro by Morgan Parker Pdf

From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. "Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read—both as an account of a private life and as searing political protest." —TIME Magazine A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, and more. Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics—of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present—timeless black melancholies and triumphs.

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Cary Nelson
Anthology of Modern American Poetry Book PDF

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0195122712

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Anthology of Modern American Poetry by Cary Nelson Pdf

Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

Gerald Moore
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry Book PDF

Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141912905

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore Pdf

'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.

Brutal Imagination PA

Cornelius Eady
Brutal Imagination PA Book PDF

Author : Cornelius Eady
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101143575

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Brutal Imagination PA by Cornelius Eady Pdf

Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America. “A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—The Village Voice This poetry collection explores the vision of the black man in white imagination, as well as the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart. These two main themes showcase Cornelius Eady’s range: his deft wit, inventiveness, and skillfully targeted anger, and the way in which he combines the subtle with the charged, street idiom with elegant inversions, harsh images with the sweetly ordinary. Includes poems that inspired the libretto for Eady’s music-drama Running Man, a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

Cary Nelson
The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry Book PDF

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190204150

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry by Cary Nelson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.

Modern Black Poets

Donald B. Gibson
Modern Black Poets Book PDF

Author : Donald B. Gibson
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003786220

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Modern Black Poets by Donald B. Gibson Pdf

Twelve critical essays sketch the tradition of black poets in the U. S. from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the black rage of the 1970's. Separate critiques are devoted to the work of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Melvin B. Tolson, Robert Hayden, and Imamu Amiri Baraka.

Black Music, Black Poetry

Professor Gordon E Thompson
Black Music Black Poetry Book PDF

Author : Professor Gordon E Thompson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472430601

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Black Music, Black Poetry by Professor Gordon E Thompson Pdf

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, Harryette Mullen, and Amos Leon Thomas. Taken together, these essays offer a rich examination of the breath of black poetry and the ties it has to the rhythms and forms of black music and the influence of black music on black poetic practice.

What I Say

Aldon Lynn Nielsen,Lauri Ramey
What I Say Book PDF

Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen,Lauri Ramey
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780817358006

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What I Say by Aldon Lynn Nielsen,Lauri Ramey Pdf

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the collection in its black modernist roots. In tracing the fascinating and unexpected paths of experimentation these poets explored, however, Nielsen and Ramey reveal the tight delineations of African American poetry that omitted noncanonical forms. This invigorating panoply of work, when restored, brings into focus the creatively elastic frontiers and multifaceted expressions of contemporary black poetry. Several of the poets discussed in What I Say forged relationships with members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement and participated in the broader community of innovative poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and continues to exert a powerful influence today. Each volume can stand on its own, and reading them in tandem will provide a clear vision of how innovative African American poetries have evolved across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. What I Say is infinitely teachable, compelling, and rewarding. It will appeal to a broad readership of poets, poetics teachers, poetics scholars, students of African American literature in nonnarrative forms, Afro-futurism, and what lies between the modern and the contemporary in global and localized writing practices.

African-American Poets

Harold Bloom
African American Poets Book PDF

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438112718

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African-American Poets by Harold Bloom Pdf

This volume focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance, paying tribute to a heritage that has long been overlooked. Works covered in this text include poems by Phillis Wheatley, widely recognized as

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

L. Ramey
Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry Book PDF

Author : L. Ramey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230610163

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Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry by L. Ramey Pdf

In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'intrinsic value as lyric poetry, sheds light on their roots and originality, anddraws new conclusions on anart form long considereda touchstone of cultural imagination.

Notable African American Writers

Salem Press
Notable African American Writers Book PDF

Author : Salem Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 1642654078

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Notable African American Writers by Salem Press Pdf

Provides a three volume set that examines African Americans who wrote centuries ago, as well as modern storytellers whose work reflects the changing global landscape, providing an overview and more in-depth context to the stories of over 100 acclaimed African American authors.