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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?
David Drake is recognized as one of the United States' most
accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his pots-many
inscribed with original verse-sit in museums across the nation, he
is too often passed over when considering the early foundations of
African American poetry. Born in South Carolina at the beginning of
the nineteenth century, Drake produced hundreds of pieces while
under the surveillance of the enslavers who claimed him and his
work as their property. Still, asserts P. Gabrielle Foreman, he is
perhaps the only Black person in all of the free or slave states
whose literary work was preserved in neither books nor pamphlets
nor newspapers. His pots and jars served as pages as well as
ceramic vessels. This book examines how Drake's pottery and poetry
have inspired visual artists and poets who claim him as an artistic
ancestor. It features the Sir Dave (1998) series by artist Jonathan
Green, including thirteen paintings that have never been exhibited
or published together before. Accompanying and in dialogue with
Green's paintings is a twenty-poem cycle called All My Relation
(2015) by Glenis Redmond. Praise Songs includes the editor's
interview of Redmond and Green and essays by Redmond, Foreman, and
Lynnette Young Overby, the artistic director of a 2014
collaboration and performance featuring both Green's and Redmond's
work. As one of the first volumes to focus on Drake's legacy as a
writer, it also includes an updated compilation of all David
Drake's poetic inscriptions. This volume presents the artistic
legacy of one of the most well-known Black potters, and one of the
most innovative and underappreciated enslaved poets, of the
nineteenth century.
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