Furious Flower - Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (Paperback)

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and Meta DuEwa Jones. 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, to ask, "What's next for Black poetic expression?

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2020
Authors:	Joanne V. Gabbin
Editors:	Lauren K. Alleyne
Authors:	Rita Dove • John Bracey • Iain Haley Pollock • Gregory Pardlo • Aaron Van Jordan • Glenis Redmond • Fred Joiner • Frank X. Walker
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-4154-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8101-4154-X
Barcode:	9780810141544

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