Furious Flower : seeding the future of African American poetry / edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne ; foreword by Rita Dove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabbin, Joanne V., editor.

Alleyne, Lauren K., editor.

Dove, Rita, writer of foreword.

James Madison University. Furious Flower Poetry Center.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry--21st century.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 441 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation's first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice by posing the question, What's next for Black poetic expression?"--Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Rita Dove

Preface / Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne

1. Collective power

2. Black aesthetics

3. Pan-African poetics

4. Renovation

5. Writing the body

6. The collective.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9780810141544

081014154X

OCLC:

1104924376

Publisher Number:

99983928565