Summoning our saints : the poetry and prose of Brenda Marie Osbey / edited by John Wharton Lowe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowe, John Wharton, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osbey, Brenda Marie--Criticism and interpretation.

Osbey, Brenda Marie.

Women poets--Criticism and interpretation.

Women poets.

Poets laureate--Louisiana.

Poets laureate.

Criticism and interpretation.

Louisiana.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South's and the nation's most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function during the dark days after Hurricane Katrina, Osbey has summoned up a magical, beguiling, sometimes chilling and appalling portrait of the myriad chapters of New Orleans, Southern, and hemispheric history. Her dazzling narratives offer apertures into desire, death and remembrance, often through the voices of neglected and abused citizens. The essays in this collection examine Osbey's essays and poetry collections, situating them within greater traditions of African American women's writing, blues music, and West African religious traditions and Catholicism. The chapters are punctuated throughout with Osbey's own reflections on her work and bring a long-needed and appreciative critical focus to a great artist, elucidating her contributions to our common cultural heritage. The book examines Osbey's meditations on topics such as colonization, the African diaspora, the circumCaribbean, and contemporary parallels between Europe and the United States to showcase the ways in which they add valuable new insights to transnational studies."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Mapping a starry poetics: the achievement of Brenda Marie Osbey / John Wharton Lowe

The origins of Osbey's poetics: the achievement of Ceremony for Minneconjoux and In These Houses / John Wharton Lowe

"And I can see to it you stay dead / on a daily basis": Brenda Marie Osbey's culturally based aesthetics (a poet's perspective) / Doris Davenport

Desperate measures / Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Wild and holy women in the poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey / Andrea Benton Rushing

Saints of a darker hue in Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints / Reggie Scott Young

Haunted memories: disruptive ghosts in the poems of Brenda Marie Osbey / Tracy Watts

Imagining history: Brenda Marie Osbey and the poetics of imagination / Thadious Davis

Crossing the gulf: ecopoetic revisions of the coast in Brenda Marie Osbey, Natasha Trethewey, and Yusef Komunyakaa / Daniel Cross Turner

Feeding the gulf dead: an ofrenda of response to Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints and All Souls / Dolores Flores-Silva with Keith Cartwright

The roots and routes of Brenda Marie Osbey's Black Internationalism / Malin Pereira

Introduction to 1967: on the semicentenary of the desegregation of the College of William and Mary / Hermine Pinson

Chronology of the life and career of Brenda Marie Osbey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781498581592

1498581595

OCLC:

1104309445