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What I say : innovative poetry by black writers in America / edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • online resource
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  • 9780817388003
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  • PS591 .W438 2014
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Contents:
C.S. Giscombe; Will Alexander; Apprenticeship; The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear; Concerning Forms which Hold Heidegger in Judgment; Ron Allen; (Untitled); Merchant of the Open Grid; boss napalm; Pimp Chain Radiator; T.J. Anderson III; Better Git It in Yo' Soul; Al-Hadiqa Street Mirage; At a Column of Crutches, Basilique de Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre; Tisa Bryant; from Tzimmes; Pia Deas; from Cargo; C.S. Giscombe; Where I Lost It; from Look Ahead-Look South.
Subject: 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, W.
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Making Book: Winners, Losers, Poetry, Anthologies, and the Color Line -- C.S. Giscombe; Will Alexander; Apprenticeship; The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear; Concerning Forms which Hold Heidegger in Judgment; Ron Allen; (Untitled); Merchant of the Open Grid; boss napalm; Pimp Chain Radiator; T.J. Anderson III; Better Git It in Yo' Soul; Al-Hadiqa Street Mirage; At a Column of Crutches, Basilique de Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre; Tisa Bryant; from Tzimmes; Pia Deas; from Cargo; C.S. Giscombe; Where I Lost It; from Look Ahead-Look South.

(Very recent past)(The 70s-UltraSuede); (The distant past-B.W.I.); from Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River; from At Large (1981); from The Northernmost Road; from Five Dreams; Mnemonic Geography; Afro-Prairie; Three Dreams; Renee Gladman; from Not Right Now; from No Through Street; from Tour; from Radicals Plan; Duriel E. Harris; Lazarus Minor; Phaneric Display No. 2: The Meta; Phaneric Display No. 3: Slumber Party Cabaret in E minor; Monday; Harmony Holiday; Gone by Then; Spectacular Brooding; Erica Hunt; After All; Verse; Afterword; The Voice of No; Personal; Starting with A.

Object AuthorityKim D. Hunter; crazy for your tongues; jo mama at de crossroads; didn't yo mama invent the pay toilet; we don't need hell; Geoffrey Jacques; Saturday Night Fish Fry; Well You Needn't; The Wonderful Fantasies of the Colonized; The Culture of the Copy; One Year Later; Night Language: listening to Jayne Cortez; Notice; Douglas Kearney; Atomic Buckdance; Swimchant for Nigger Mer-Folk (An Aquaboogie Set in Lapis); The Chitlin Circuit; John Keene; Ionisation; Color; Self; Survey; Nathaniel Mackey; Dogon Eclipse; Black Snake Visitation; Ghede Poem; Song of the Andoumboulou: 6.

Song of the Andoumboulou: 4Song of the Andoumboulou: 12; Irritable Mystic; Alphabet of Ahtt; Song of the Andoumboulou: 23; Song of the Andoumboulou: 24; Song of the Andoumboulou: 31; Lag Anthem; Song of the Andoumboulou: 40; Dread Lakes Aperture; Dawn Lundy Martin; A Bleeding: An Autobiographical Tale; Telling Tales; Mark McMorris; Diode; Seven Days; from Of Baths and Systems; Inscriptions on the Whale Flank; Dialegomai (Suite); from Black Pieces III (The Horses of Plato and Achilles); Reef: Shadow of Green; Tracie Morris; SuReal; Why I Won't Wear a Tattoo; Apology to Pangea; Fred Moten.

Bessie SmithHenry Dumas; Murray Jackson; William Parker; Modern Language Day; We Live After a River; Harryette Mullen; Bête Noir; from Trimmings; from S*PeRM**K*T; from Muse and Drudge; Denigration; Free Radicals; The Lunar Lutheran; Ted Joans at the Café Bizarre; Zen Acorn; Mendi Lewis Obadike; Determined Invisibility; What I Had to Have; Gassed; Open; G.E. Patterson; Hesitation Step; As If That Alone; Julie Ezelle Patton; When the Saints Go; Revelation; Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake; Claudia Rankine; from Residual in the Hour; from Hunger to the Table; from Hunger to the Table.

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, W.

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