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A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and
radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a
cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together
new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A
Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this
important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the
work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin
Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical
political responses to state violence and urban insurrection.
Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing
relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential
reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry.
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A True Account
David Grundy
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"Gorgeous and real poetry. This book is a bright spot in a bleak
time." – Peter Gizzi A True Account collects works written
between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in
the UK and the US. Here are variously refracted the student
movement, austerity, general election, referendum, the crisis of
2020 or 2019 or any year you care to name; the Massacre of the
Innocents, the housing question, the October Revolution in
November; Sappho, Mingus, Storm Ophelia; Rukeyser, Rilke, Rodefer;
the aesthetics of resistance, the insistence of history: luxury and
voluptuousness, peace and pleasure, beauty and order, the questions
that still remain unanswered and the problems that remain unsolved.
“Wanting poetry to save my life, to shame my life, as LONG as the
WORLD is WIDE, and as WIDE as the WORLD is LONG.” For Fans Of:
Sean Bonney, Amiri Baraka, Fred Moten, Peter Gizzi
The definitive guide to a major African American poet />
/>This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C.
Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a
major voice in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the
Umbra Poets Workshop; a participant in the Black Arts Movement, R.
D. Laing's Kingsley Hall, and the Antiuniversity of London; and a
teacher at Oberlin College who counted amongst his friends bell
hooks, Toni Morrison, and Odetta. As a pioneer in the field of
Black Studies, Hernton developed a theoretical and practical
pedagogy with lasting impact on generations of students. He may be
best known as an anti-sexist sociologist, following in the
footsteps of W.E.B. Du Bois, but Hernton viewed himself, above all,
as a poet. This volume includes a generous selection of Hernton's
previously published poems, from classics like the often
anthologized "The Distant Drum" to the visionary epic The Coming of
Chronos to the House of Nightsong, reprinted in full for the first
time since 1964, alongside uncollected and unpublished material
from the Calvin C. Hernton papers at Ohio University, a new
critical introduction, and detailed notes, chronology, and
bibliography. /> />[sample poem] /> />The Distant Drum
/> />I am not a metaphor or symbol. />This you hear is not
the wind in the trees. />Nor a cat being maimed in the street.
/>I am being maimed in the street />It is I who weep, laugh,
feel pain or joy. />Speak this because I exist. />This is my
voice />These words are my words, my mouth />Speaks them, my
hand writes. />I am a poet. />It is my fist you hear beating
/>Against your ear.
A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and
radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a
cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together
new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A
Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this
important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the
work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin
Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical
political responses to state violence and urban insurrection.
Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing
relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential
reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry.
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The definitive guide to a major African American poet. This volume
promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's
unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice
in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the Umbra Poets
Workshop; a participant in the Black Arts Movement, R. D. Laing's
Kingsley Hall, and the Antiuniversity of London; and a teacher at
Oberlin College who counted amongst his friends bell hooks, Toni
Morrison, and Odetta. As a pioneer in the field of Black Studies,
Hernton developed a theoretical and practical pedagogy with lasting
impact on generations of students. He may be best known as an
anti-sexist sociologist, following in the footsteps of W.E.B. Du
Bois, but Hernton viewed himself, above all, as a poet. This volume
includes a generous selection of Hernton's previously published
poems, from classics like the often anthologized "The Distant Drum"
to the visionary epic The Coming of Chronos to the House of
Nightsong, reprinted in full for the first time since 1964,
alongside uncollected and unpublished material from the Calvin C.
Hernton papers at Ohio University, a new critical introduction, and
detailed notes, chronology, and bibliography. [sample poem] The
Distant Drum I am not a metaphor or symbol. This you hear is not
the wind in the trees. Nor a cat being maimed in the street. I am
being maimed in the street It is I who weep, laugh, feel pain or
joy. Speak this because I exist. This is my voice These words are
my words, my mouth Speaks them, my hand writes. I am a poet. It is
my fist you hear beating Against your ear.
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