What I Say : Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America / edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheyer, Lauri, editor.

Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, editor.

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetics.

Modern and Contemporary Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Making Book: Winners, Losers, Poetry, Anthologies, and the Color Line - C. S. Giscombe; Will Alexander; Apprenticeship; The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear; Concerning Forms which Hold Heidegger in Judgment; Ron Allen; (Untitled); Merchant of the Open Grid; boss napalm; Pimp Chain Radiator; T.J. Anderson III; Better Git It in Yo' Soul; Al-Hadiqa Street Mirage; At a Column of Crutches, Basilique de Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre; Tisa Bryant; from Tzimmes; Pia Deas; from Cargo; C. S. Giscombe; Where I Lost It; from Look Ahead-Look South

(very recent past)(The 70s-UltraSuede); (The distant past-B.W.I.); from Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River; from At Large (1981); from The Northernmost Road; from Five Dreams; Mnemonic Geography; Afro-Prairie; Three Dreams; Renee Gladman; from Not Right Now; from No Through Street; from Tour; from Radicals Plan; Duriel E. Harris; Lazarus Minor; Phaneric Display No. 2: The Meta; Phaneric Display No. 3: Slumber Party Cabaret in E minor; Monday; Harmony Holiday; Gone by Then; Spectacular Brooding; Erica Hunt; After All; Verse; Afterword; The Voice of No; Personal; Starting with A

Object AuthorityKim D. Hunter; crazy for your tongues; jo mama at de crossroads; didn't yo mama invent the pay toilet; we don't need hell; Geoffrey Jacques; Saturday Night Fish Fry; Well You Needn't; The Wonderful Fantasies of the Colonized; The Culture of the Copy; One Year Later; Night Language: listening to Jayne Cortez; Notice; Douglas Kearney; Atomic Buckdance; Swimchant for Nigger Mer-Folk (An Aquaboogie Set in Lapis); The Chitlin Circuit; John Keene; Ionisation; Color; Self; Survey; Nathaniel Mackey; Dogon Eclipse; Black Snake Visitation; Ghede Poem; Song of the Andoumboulou: 6

Song of the Andoumboulou: 4Song of the Andoumboulou: 12; Irritable Mystic; Alphabet of Ahtt; Song of the Andoumboulou: 23; Song of the Andoumboulou: 24; Song of the Andoumboulou: 31; Lag Anthem; Song of the Andoumboulou: 40; Dread Lakes Aperture; Dawn Lundy Martin; A Bleeding: An Autobiographical Tale; Telling Tales; Mark McMorris; Diode; Seven Days; from Of Baths and Systems; Inscriptions on the Whale Flank; Dialegomai (Suite); from Black Pieces III (The Horses of Plato & Achilles); Reef: Shadow of Green; Tracie Morris; SuReal; Why I Won't Wear a Tattoo; Apology to Pangea; Fred Moten

Bessie SmithHenry Dumas; Murray Jackson; William Parker; Modern Language Day; We Live After a River; Harryette Mullen; Bête Noir; from Trimmings; from S*PeRM**K*T; from Muse and Drudge; Denigration; Free Radicals; The Lunar Lutheran; Ted Joans at the Café Bizarre; Zen Acorn; Mendi Lewis Obadike; Determined Invisibility; What I Had to Have; Gassed; Open; G. E. Patterson; Hesitation Step; As If That Alone; Julie Ezelle Patton; When the Saints Go; Revelation; Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake; Claudia Rankine; from Residual in the Hour; from Hunger to the Table; from Hunger to the Table

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ISBN:

0-8173-8800-1

OCLC:

908447944