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Watch your language visual and literary reflections on a century of American poetry

Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brillian contemplations of personal and allegorical literary development.... Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical...

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Main Author: Hayes, Terrance (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poetics.
African American poets.
Literary criticism.
Creative nonfiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: How to use this book
  • Between practice, 1984
  • Reflections and foresight upon a century of poetry, 2016
  • The nine muses of a poetry enthusiast's view of history or the nine multi-faced, multifaceted muses of American poetic production? (Twentieth century examination, key I)
  • Twentieth century examination, part I: Where would you begin?
  • My Gwendolyn Brooks
  • William Waring Cuney, born 1906
  • Margaret Danner, born 1915
  • Mari Evans, born 1919
  • Wallace Stevens Key
  • Twentieth century examination, part II: Did modernism begin at the same time as American poetry, or vice versa?
  • Poetry Foundation journal days, 2006
  • Bob Kaufman, born 1925
  • Russell Atkins, born 1926
  • Raymond Patterson, born 1929
  • Twentieth century examination, part III: Why so few poems concerning the atomic bomb?
  • A Lucille Clifton-inspired Sterling Brown teaching fable
  • Sonia Sanchez, born 1934
  • Michael S. Harper, born 1938
  • Barbara Chase-Riboud, born 1939
  • Intro: SOS: Poems 1961-2013, works by Amiri Baraka
  • Twentieth century examination, part IV: How should we go about awarding Gwendolyn Brooks a posthumous Novel Prize in literature?
  • Toi Derricotte, born 1941
  • Lorenzo Thomas, born 1944
  • Ai, born 1947
  • Yusef Komunyakaa, born 1947
  • Everyday mojo letters to Yusef
  • Twentieth century examination, part V: How old is contemporary poetry?
  • James Baldwin Cave Canem keynote, 2017
  • Afaa M. Weaver, born 1951
  • Tony Hoagland, born 1953
  • Lynda Hull, born 1954
  • Patricia Smith, born 1955
  • Lucie Brock-Broido, born 1956
  • Essex Hemphill, born 1957
  • Twentieth century examination, part VI: What happened to the last of the last poets?
  • Reginald Shepherd, born 1963
  • David Cloud Berman, born 1967
  • A Frank Stanford lyric speech act test with visions
  • "Folk stone"
  • Twentieth century examination, part VII: Where do poets come from?
  • Introduction to Wicked enchantment: selected poems
  • Cornelius Eady reading introduction, 2003
  • Toi Tribute, 2012
  • Twentieth century examination, part VIII: How many of your muses rest in peace?
  • The Time Seibles bookbioboardgame
  • The renegade poetic fortune-telling machine
  • Brigit Pegeen Kelly and the case of the missing manuscript! (1951-2016)
  • Guan Guan, 1929-2021
  • Twentieth century examination, part IX: What grows harder to see as you get closer to it?
  • The African rainbow lizard
  • A poetics of practice keynote.

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