Furious Flower : seeding the future of African American poetry /

Furious Flower : seeding the future of African American poetry /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Evanston, Illinois : Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xxxv, 441 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	American poetry -- African American authors. American poetry -- 20th century. American poetry -- 21st century. African Americans -- Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12284492

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Other authors / contributors:	Gabbin, Joanne V., editor. Alleyne, Lauren K., editor. Dove, Rita, writer of foreword. James Madison University. Furious Flower Poetry Center.
ISBN:	9780810141544 081014154X
Summary:	"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation's first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice by posing the question, What's next for Black poetic expression?"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Rita Dove
Preface / Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne
1. Collective power
2. Black aesthetics
3. Pan-African poetics
4. Renovation
5. Writing the body
6. The collective.