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What I say : innovative poetry by Black writers in America / edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Modern and contemporary poetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--20th century.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Poetics.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 324 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- What I Say 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Will Alexander 8
- Apprenticeship 8
- The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear 12
- Concerning Forms which Hold Heidegger in Judgment 13
- Ron Allen 17
- (Untitled) 17
- Merchant of the Open Grid 18
- Boss napalm 19
- Pimp Chain Radiator 20
- T. J. Anderson III 21
- Better Git It in Yo' Soul 21
- Al-Hadiqa Street Mirage 22
- At a Column of Crutches, Basilique de Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre 23
- Tisa Bryant 24
- From Tzimmes 24
- Pia Deas 27
- From Cargo 27
- C. S. Giscombe 32
- Where I Lost It 32
- From Look Ahead-Look South 33
- (very recent past) 33
- (The 70s-UltraSuede) 34
- (The distant past-B.W.I.) 35
- From Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River 36
- From At Large (1981) 37
- From The Northernmost Road 38
- From Five Dreams 39
- Mnemonic Geography 40
- Afro-Prairie 41
- Three Dreams 42
- Renee Gladman 45
- From Not Right Now 45
- From No Through Street 47
- From Tour 49
- From Radicals Plan 52
- Duriel E. Harris 54
- Lazarus Minor 54
- Phaneric Display No. 2: The Meta 55
- Phaneric Display No. 3: Slumber Party Cabaret in E minor 56
- Monday 58
- Harmony Holiday 60
- Gone by Then 60
- Spectacular Brooding 61
- Erica Hunt 62
- After All 62
- Verse 64
- Afterword 65
- The Voice of No 66
- Personal 67
- Starting with A 68
- Object Authority 69
- Kim D. Hunter 71
- Crazy for your tongues 71
- Jo mama at de crossroads 73
- Didn't yo mama invent the pay toilet 75
- We don't need hell 76
- Geoffrey Jacques 79
- Saturday Night Fish Fry 79
- Well You Needn't 80
- The Wonderful Fantasies of the Colonized 81
- The Culture of the Copy 82
- One Year Later 83
- Night Language listening to Jayne Cortex 84
- Notice 85
- Douglas Kearney 86
- Atomic Buckdance 86
- Swimchant for Nigger Mer-folk (An Aquaboogie Set in Lapis) 90
- The Chitlin Circuit 92
- John Keene 93
- Ionisation 93
- Color 94
- Self 95
- Survey 97
- Nathaniel Mackey 98
- Dogon Eclipse 98
- Black Snake Visitation 100
- Ghede Poem 103
- Song of tire Andoumboulou: 6 108
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 4 111
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 12 113
- Irritable Mystic 115
- Alphabet of Ahtt 118
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 23 122
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 24 126
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 130
- Lag Anthem 132
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 40 135
- Dread Lakes Aperture 139
- Dawn Lundy Martin 142
- A Bleeding: An Autobiographical Tale 142
- Telling Tales 144
- Mark McMorris 146
- Diode 146
- Seven Days 148
- From Of Baths and Systems 150
- Inscriptions on the Whale Flank 154
- Diaiegomai (Suite) 158
- From Black Pieces III (The Horses of Plato & Achilles) 162
- Reef: Shadow of Green 164
- Tracie Morris 168
- SuReal 168
- Why I Won't Wear a Tattoo 169
- Apology to Pangea 170
- Fred Moten 171
- Bessie Smith 171
- Henry Dumas 172
- Murray Jackson 173
- William Parker 174
- Modern Language Day 176
- We Live After a River 177
- Harryette Mullen 178
- Bête Noir 178
- From Trimmings 179
- From S*PeRM**K*T 182
- From Muse and Drudge 186
- Denigration 192
- Free Radicals 193
- The Lunar Lutheran 194
- Ted Joans at the Cafe Bizarre 195
- Zen Acorn 196
- Mendi Lewis Obadike 197
- Determined Invisibility 197
- What I Had to Have 198
- Gassed 199
- Open 200
- G. E. Patterson 201
- Hesitation Step 201
- As If That Alone 202
- Julie Ezelle Patton 203
- When the Saints Go 204
- Revelation 205
- Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake 206
- Claudia Rankine 232
- From Residual in the Hour 232
- From Hunger to the Table 233
- From Toward Biography 235
- Liv's View of Landscape I 236
- Interpretive Commentary 237
- From Don't Let Me Be Lonely 238
- Deborah Richards 245
- Parable 245
- Evie Shockley 257
- Art of dakar (or, tourist trap) 257
- Atlantis made easy 258
- Henry bibb considers love and livery 259
- You must walk this lonesome 261
- A thousand words 262
- Poem for when his arms open so wide you fall through 263
- Aftermath 264
- A course in canvas 265
- Not in the causal chain 266
- Giovanni singleton 267
- From melanin suite 267
- American Letters 272
- From Atias: The Green Book 281
- Mesostic for Ree Dragonette 282
- Mesostic for the Sun Ra Arkestra 283
- Mesostic: Golden Sardine (after Bob Kaufman) 284
- The odds 285
- Tyrone Williams 287
- Constellation 287
- Card 289
- "Dispell'd" 290
- El Negro 292
- Study of a Negro Head 293
- If Mime then Music... 294
- Cold Calls 295
- From Bar Code 312
- Ronaldo V. Wilson 314
- On the C Train the Black Object Ponders Amuzati's Family Eaten in the Congo 314
- 51. Lucy, Her River and Sky 315
- The Black Object's Elasticity 317.
- ISBN:
- 9780817358006
- 0817358005
- OCLC:
- 910983366
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