The ringing ear : Black poets lean south / edited by Nikky Finney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finney, Nikky.

Cave Canem (Organization)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--Southern States.

Southern States.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Southern States--Poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 405 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2007]

Summary:

The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary Black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to the South.

Contents:

Heirlooms and Introductions xix

Music, Food, and Work: Heeding the Lamentation and Roar of Things Made by Hand

/ Kelly Norman Ellis "Dirty Rice" 3

/ Chanda Feldman "Rabbit" 4

/ Christopher Gilbert "Time with Stevie Wonder in It" 6

/ M. Nzadi Keita "Night Shift/Day Shift" 9

/ Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Don't Know What Love Is" 11

/ Sean Hill "Joe Chappel's Foot Log Bottom Blues, 1952" 12

/ Frank X Walker "Glutton" 14

/ Ebony Golden "Back in blues" 16

/ Traci Dant "Fish" 17

/ Ebony Golden "Red onion hoodoo" 19

/ Sharan Strange "Night Work" 21

/ Yvonne Jackson "Doing Hair" 23

/ Remica L. Bingham "Simmie Knox Paints Bill Clinton for the White House" 25

/ Vida Henderson "The Boucherie" 27

/ Taiyon Coleman "Catfish" 28

/ Cornelius Eady "Miss Look's Dream (Miss Look)" 32

/ Lenard D. Moore "The Migrants" 34

/ Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle" 35

/ Robin Caudell "Red Blessings" 38

/ Natasha Trethewey "At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi, 1950" 41

/ Yolanda Wisher "Pea Song" 43

/ Carrie Allen McCray "Intermittent Requiems for Bud" 44

/ Kevin Simmonds "Witness" 46

/ Kalamuya Salaam "The Spice of Life" 47

/ Evie Shockley "The Quilter" 48

/ Nathaniel Mackey "Sound and Semblance" 49

/ Suzanne Jackson "Cookout" 52

/ Cherene Sherrard "Watermelon Repast" 54

/ Joanne Gabbin "Pot Meals" 55

/ Jaki Shelton Green "I know the grandmother one had hands" 57

/ Jane Alberdeston Coralin "Smoke" 59

/ Forrest Hamer "Middle Ear" 61

Swimming, Childhood, and Other Thunders: Don't Get Your Hot Hair Wet or Your Good Shoes Dirty

/ Sharan Strange "How to Teach Them" 65

/ Yusef Komunyakaa "Immolatus" 68

/ Nikki Giovanni "Nikki-Rosa" 70

/ Jane Alberdeston Coralin "Lessons in Trailer Living" 72

/ Stephanie Pruitt "Hair Raising" 73

/ Reuben Jackson "1957" 74

/ Sam Ragland "Manhood" 76

/ Lauri Conner "What she will remember" 78

/ Indigo Moor "Splinter of the Path" 79

/ Chanda Feldman "Fusion" 81

/ Mitchell L. H. Douglas "On the first drive-by" 83

/ Vida Henderson "Mama Gertie Bell Speaks to Her Granddaughter" 84

/ Valjeanne Jeffers-Thompson "My Best Day" 85

/ Thomas Sayers Ellis "Nicknames" 86

/ Kelly Norman Ellis "Journeyman" 90

/ Cornelius Eady "Buckwheat's Lament" 91

/ Cherryl Floyd-Miller "Bull" 92

/ Yvonne Jackson "How to Make It" 94

/ Reuben Jackson "Key west" 97

/ Colleen J. McElroy "Eads Bridge Boogie Across the Mississippi" 99

/ Shirlette Ammons "History Makes Concessions for White Boys" 100

/ Meta DuEwa Jones "Black Hymnal" 102

/ Kevin Young "The Dry Spell" 104

/ Curtis Crisler "Spectaculations" 106

/ LaVon Rice "Ghazai for My Mother" 108

Religion and Nature: The Lord Looks Out for Babies and Fools; The Anvil of Heaven Murmuring

/ M. Nzadi Keita "Sunday" 111

/ Kevin Young "How to Make Rain" 112

/ Rachel Nelson "The Tire Plant Is Struck by Lightning" 114

/ Alvin Aubert "Baptism" 115

/ Ronald Dorris "St. Philip Blues" 117

/ Kalamu ya Salaam "Quarter Moon Rise" 119

/ DeLana Dameron "Israelites" 120

/ Cherene Sherrard "Picnic" 121

/ Sheree Renee Thomas "Lightning bug reflects" 123

/ Jarvis Q. DeBerry "The Reason I Know the Devil Is Mean" 124

/ Alvin Aubert "Nat Turner in the Clearing" 125

/ Jaye Farren "Prelude to a new plague" 126

/ Jericho Brown "Speaking in Tongues" 127

/ Rachel Nelson "My Mother's Tornado" 129

/ Kevin Simmonds "Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me" 130

/ Forrest Hamer "Goldsboro Narrative #20" 131

/ Earl Braggs "Storm Named Earl" 133

His and Her Story: The Myth and Rumble of Memory under the Hammer of Jeopardy

/ Truth Thomas "Harriet Tubman's Email 2 Master" 139

/ Holly Bass "Seven crown man" 140

/ Kevin Young "Reward" 142

/ J.W. Richardson "The Politics of Breathing" 144

/ Harryette Mullen "We Are Not Responsible" 145

/ Kendra Hamilton "The Good Funeral" 146

/ Cornelius Eady "My Heart" 148

/ Sean Hill "Hands, 1921" 149

/ Natasha Trethewey "Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956" 152

/ Lenard D. Moore "Barking" 278

/ Patricia Johnson "In a place where" 279

/ Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Garden" 281

/ Remica L. Bingham "O'Connor's South" 284

/ Duriel E. Harris "Bliss: geophagy" 286

/ Amanda Johnston "Bowing in the Church of Beauty" 287

/ Matilda Cox "Awake" 288

/ Teri Elam-Blanchard "In my neighborhood just north of atlanta" 289

/ Sean Hill "Milledgeville Haibun" 290

/ Naomi Long Madgett "Fifth Street Exit, Richmond" 291

/ Reginald Harris "Summer Night, McNasby's Pier, 1968" 295

/ E. Ethelbert Miller "Duke" 297

/ Earl Braggs "Of Course the Brochure Doesn't Mention Mrs. Abbott" 300

/ Nikki Giovanni "Knoxville, Tennessee" 303

/ Yusef Komunyakaa "Between Angels & Monsters" 304

/ Sonia Sanchez "On Passing thru Morgantown" 306

/ Christian Campbell "Song of the South" 307

/ Kalamu ya Salaam "Our Natures Rise" 309

/ Cornelius Eady "Home (Running Man)" 310

/ Al Young "Landscape Mode" 313

/ Chanda Feldman "True Autumn" 314

/ Reuben Jackson "Driving South" 316

/ Truth Thomas "I Love It When You Call Me Big Country" 317

The Twenty-first-Century Southern Riff and Shout: Modern Lullabies for Planet Octavia

/ Harryette Mullen "Ectopia" 321

/ Meta DuEwa Jones "Graphs: Photos from a Traveler" 322

/ Cherene Sherrard "Residual" 325

/ Sonia Sanchez "I Have Walked a Long Time" 326

/ Jaye Farren "Saturday & a glimpse of sunday" 328

/ Askhari "Haiku 142005" 330

/ Treasure Williams "Community day" 331

/ Thomas Sayers Ellis "Afronauts" 334

/ Frank X Walker "We Real Crunk" 336

/ Jarvis Q. DeBerry "Diovan HCT 160MG" 337

/ David Mills "Three the Hard Way" 338

/ Dante Micheaux "Lawn Jockey" 344

/ Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Poem For Amadou Diallo" 345

/ Douglas Kearney "Big Thicket: Pastoral" 346

/ Kamilah Aisha Moon "Dressing Down" 349

/ Quentin Huff "Elegy for the Mad Brother @ Borders" 350

/ Reginald Flood "Poem for June Jordan" 352

/ Shirlette Ammons "Apathy no more" 354

/ Forrest Hamer "Gentleman" 356

/ Colleen J. McElroy "Eartha Takes the Old Woman Shopping for Red Shoes" 357

/ Kevin Simmonds "One for Strom" 359

/ Christopher Gilbert "Now" 360

Nikky Finney Interviews Lucille Clifton 363.

Notes:

"A Cave Canem anthology"--Cover.

ISBN:

9780820329253

0820329258

9780820329260

0820329266

OCLC:

71369370