A beat beyond : selected prose / by Major Jackson ; edited by Amor Kohli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Major, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Kohli, Amor, 1970- editor.

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Essays.

Book reviews.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xv, 167 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Summary:

"In this collection of essays, interviews, and notes, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from bewildering traumas, and the social function of the art of poetry itself. Accessible and critically minded, Jackson returns to the poem as an unparalleled source of linguistic pleasure that structures a multilayered "lyric self." In his interviews, Jackson illustrates poetry's distinct ability to mediate the inexplicable while foregrounding the possibilities of human song. Collected over several decades, these essays find Jackson praising mythmaking in Frank Bidart and Ai's poetry, expressing bafflement at the silence of white-identified poets in the cause of social and racial justice, unearthing the politics behind Gwendolyn Brooks's Pulitzer Prize, and marveling at the "hallucinatory speed of thought" in a diverse range of poets including Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Brenda Hillman, Afaa Michael Weaver, Forrest Gander, and Terrance Hayes. This collection passionately surveys the radical shifts of the art and notes poetry as a necessity for a modern sensibility"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ON POETRY: MY LYRICAL SELF

My Lyrical Self

Radios

Convergences and Confluences

The Necessity of Language as Freedom

A Mystifying Silence: Big and Black

Ancient Enmity

Introduction to The Best American Poetry zoig

The Dadaab Suite: An Introduction

ON POETS: TALES OF THE HEROIC

The Historical Poem

Tales of the Heroic

Collected Poems of Robert Hayden

Countee Cullen and the Racial Mountain

Wallace Stevens After "Lunch"

Making Is the Mirror

Listen Children

Anatomy of a Pulitzer Prize Letter

Assuming the Mask: Persona and Identity in Ai's Poetry

Stomping with Garrett

Delight, Exactitude, and a Faith

Flash Reviews (1996-2018)

ON ENTRYWAYS: A BEAT BEYOND

Poetry and Influence of the Nonliterary Variety

Liner Notes, The Roots, Do You Want More??!!?

Living Legends

The Watts Prophets/"Rappin' Black in a White World".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780472039067

0472039067

OCLC:

1282601788