Robert Hayden in verse : new histories of African American poetry and the Black arts era / Derik Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Derik, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hayden, Robert.

Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Contents:

Part I. Meetings and Quarrels. Introduction: Upon Meeting Haki Madhubuti in a Gymnasium

Chapter 1. Quarreling in the Movement: Rethinking Hayden and the Black Arts Era

Part II. Faith and the Folk. Chapter 2. The "Cosmic Hero": Hayden's Bahá' í Faith

Chapter 3. The Aesthetics of Changing Churches: Religiousness in Black Arts- Era Poetry

Chapter 4. Witch Doctors: Hayden's Writerly Rejection of Vernacular Poetics

Part III. Hayden's Histories. Chapter 5. "beckoning beckoning": Salvific History in the Early Heritage Poems

Chapter 6. "Shadow of time. Shadow of blood.": Forgetting the Future in the Dark History Poems of the 1940s and 1950s

Chapter 7. "the fire that will save": History as Theodicy in Poems of the 1960s and 1970s

Part IV. Hayden's Legacies. Chapter 8. Professors and MCs: Institutionalizing Black Poetries in the Post-Movement Era

Chapter 9. Hayden's Heirs: Poetics of History and Aesthetic Distance in the Post-Movement Era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, Derik. Robert Hayden in verse.

ISBN:

9780472073931

0472073931

9780472053933

0472053930

OCLC:

1032290476