What I Say - Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

Informationen zum Autor Aldon Lynn Nielsen is the author of Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism and Integral Music: Languages of African Ameri­can Innovation. Lauri Ramey is the author of Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry and The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975. Klappentext An anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that allows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say is the second book in a two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Aldon Lynn (EDT)/ Ramey Nielsen
• Assisted by: Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Editor), Lauri Ramey (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780817358006
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5800-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies