Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans (Contemporary Modern Poetics) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0817352791 ISBN 13: 9780817352790

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2006

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Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.

 

Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1960s, a far-reaching revolution in aesthetics and prosody by black poets ensued, some working independently and others in organized groups. Little of this new work was reflected in the anthologies and syllabi of college English courses of the period. Even during the 1970s, when African American literature began to receive substantial critical attention, the work of many experimental black poets continued to be neglected.

Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone presents the groundbreaking work of many of these poets who carried on the innovative legacies of Melvin Tolson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden. Whereas poetry by such key figures such as Amiri Baraka, Tolson, Jayne Cortez, Clarence Major, and June Jordan is represented, this anthology also elevates into view the work of less studied poets such as  Russell Atkins, Jodi Braxton, David Henderson, Bob Kaufman, Stephen Jonas, and Elouise Loftin. Many of the poems collected in the volume are currently unavailable and some will appear in print here for the first time.

Coeditors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey provide a critical introduction that situates the poems historically and highlights the ways such poetry has been obscured from view by recent critical and academic practices. The result is a record of experimentation, instigation, and innovation that links contemporary African American poetry to its black modernist roots and extends the terms of modern poetics into the future.

                   

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Aldon Lynn Nielsen is Kelly Professor of American Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and author of Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism and Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation.

Lauri Ramey is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of Black British Writing and Sea Change.

 

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Every Goodbye Ain't Gone

An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Copyright © 2006 The University of Alabama Press
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Contents

Introduction..................................................................................xiiiLloyd AddisonI by you put on...............................................................................1After MLK.....................................................................................2All the things of which there are none........................................................4Umbra.........................................................................................6William AndersonThere's Not a Friend like the Lowly Jesus.....................................................10Russell AtkinsIt's Here in the..............................................................................11Probability and Birds.........................................................................12While Waiting for a Friend to Come to Visit a Friend in a Mental Hospital.....................13Spyrytual.....................................................................................14Lines in Recollection.........................................................................15"the L L L"...................................................................................16Furious'd Garb................................................................................17Night and a Distant Church....................................................................18Christophe....................................................................................19Irritable Songs...............................................................................20Narrative.....................................................................................27At Night Keep Still...........................................................................28Imaginary Crimes in a Real Garden.............................................................29Amiri BarakaBiography.....................................................................................30The violence of the mind is the violence of God...............................................32How People Do.................................................................................33The Heavy.....................................................................................34Lefty.........................................................................................35Node..........................................................................................37The A, B, C's.................................................................................39I Investigate the Sun.........................................................................42Courageousness................................................................................43The City of New Ark...........................................................................44Jodi BraxtonConversion....................................................................................58Harold CarringtonLament........................................................................................61Woo's People..................................................................................63sting-a south carolina ave. folk tale.........................................................64Stephen ChambersHer...........................................................................................65Jayne CortezDrying Spit Blues.............................................................................66Under the Edge of February....................................................................68Phraseology...................................................................................70Indelible.....................................................................................71Opening Act...................................................................................72Into This Time................................................................................74Lawrence S. CumberbatchI Swear to You, That Ship Never Sunk in Middle-Passage!.......................................77Again the Summoning...........................................................................78In the Early Morning Breeze...................................................................79Rudy Bee GrahamA LYNCHING FOR SKIP JAMES.....................................................................80Without Shadow................................................................................83William J. HarrisA Grandfather Poem............................................................................86Practical Concerns............................................................................87De Leon HarrisonA Collage for Richard Davis-Two Short Forms...................................................88Formula for Blue Blues Babies.................................................................89Yellow........................................................................................90David HendersonDowntown-Boy Uptown...........................................................................91Sketches of Harlem............................................................................93In Williams...................................................................................94Lock City.....................................................................................96Blackman in the Desecrated Synagogue-Living in the Last Days..................................97Calvin HerntonBeing Exit in the World.......................................................................98The Wall......................................................................................99Medicine Man..................................................................................100Joseph Jarman"what we all".................................................................................104"Non-cognitive aspects of the City"...........................................................105Ted JoansThe Overloaded Horse..........................................................................108Percy JohnstonRound About Midnight, Opus #6.................................................................109Lexington Avenue Express......................................................................110to paul robeson, opus no. 3...................................................................111Dewey Square, 1956............................................................................113BLAUPUNKT.....................................................................................115Stephen JonasFor LeRoi Jones...............................................................................116BOOK V........................................................................................117".. An Ear Injured by Hearing Things".........................................................123Orgasm 0......................................................................................125A MUDDLE......................................................................................131A LITTLE MAGIC................................................................................132lens..........................................................................................133IV............................................................................................134"what you can see"............................................................................135June JordanAll the World...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0817352791
• ISBN 13: 9780817352790
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Nielsen Aldon Lynn, Ramey Lauri
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar