Into a light both brilliant and unseen : conversations with contemporary Black poets / interviews conducted and edited by Malin Pereira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pereira, Antonio (Musician)

Contributor:

Malin, S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African American poets--Interviews.

African American poets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as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.

Contents:

Walking into the light : contemporary Black poetry, traditions, and the individual talent

Wanda Coleman

Yusef Komunyakaa

Rita Dove

Harryette Mullen

Thylias Moss

Cornelius Eady

Cyrus Cassells

Elizabeth Alexander.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612899010

9781282899018

1282899015

9780820337340

082033734X

OCLC:

693782700