Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen - Conversations With Contemporary Black Poets

Pereira's collection of interviews with leading contemporary African American poets Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, and Cyrus Cassells offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation.

About the author

MALIN PEREIRA is a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She is the author of Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism and Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics.

Summary

Pereira’s collection of interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander.

Product details

• Authors: Malin (EDT) Pereira
• Assisted by: Malin Pereira (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780820337135
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3713-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Lyrik, Poesie, POETRY / General, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing, Literature - Classics / Criticism