Furious flower : seeding the future of African American poetry /


edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne ; foreword by Rita Dove.
Bok Engelsk 2020 Furious Flower Conference,· Poetry.
Omfang
xxxv, 441 pages : : illustrations ;
Opplysninger
"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is the third anthology to come out of the project that began in 1994 with the first Furious Flower Poetry Conference. Like the two previous volumes--The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry (University of Virginia Press, 1999) and Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present (University of Virginia Press, 2004)--this anthology emerges from a conference, the third decade-defining conference, held in 2014"--Preface.. - Foreword / Rita Dove -- Preface / Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne -- Communities and Social Movements in Black Poetry / John H. Bracey -- I Don't Think for a Second That We Won't Survive This / Abdul Ali -- Praise Song for the Table in the Cafeteria Where All the Black Boys Sat Together during a Block, Laughing Too Loudly -- Preface to a Twenty-Volume Regicide Note / Joshua B. Bennett -- Mother / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Fish Fry / Remica Bingham-Risher -- for home / Destiny O. Birdsong -- Re-Portrait Your Name, Douglas / F. Douglas Brown -- The Card Tables / Jericho Brown -- Boxing Arethas / Curtis L. Crisler -- Knuckle Head / Teri Ellen Cross Davis -- self-portrait with no flag / Safia Elhillo -- poems I didn't write for you / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Making / Duriel E. Harris -- Miz Lucille / DaMaris B. Hill -- Bread Pudding Grandmamma / Darrel Alejandro Holnes -- Praise Poem for My Leo Self / JP Howard -- Gender Reveal / Amanda Johnston -- To the Builders / Fred Joiner-- A Haiku Love Letter for Gabby Douglas / Yalie Kamara -- Cartography as an Act of Remembering / Donika Kelly -- We Put So Much Faith in the Power of Doors / Jacqueline Jones LaMon -- Conditions for a Southern Gothic / Rickey Laurentiis -- which art? what fact? / Nate Marshall -- Initiation / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Activism is hot just ask Jason Momoa / Khadijah Queen -- prayer for the unseen / Anastacia-Reneé -- The Silences / Mahtem Shiferraw -- what the cicada said to the black boy / Clint Smith -- Bring Back / Samantha Thornhill -- Experiments, Technology, and the Black Avant-Garde / Evie Shockley -- Night / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Another Clearing of the Land: Epitaph for Hadiyah Pendleton / Tara Betts -- The Root / Derrick Weston Brown -- Our People I -- Our People II / CM Burroughs -- BBHMM / Tiana Clark -- Decline and Fall / Michael Collins -- Early Death Syndrome / Nandi Comer -- Revivalism 101 / Mary-Alice Daniel -- #notorious / t'ai freedom ford-- When the Therapist Asks You to Recount, You Have to Say It / Aricka Foreman -- American Counting Rhyme / Duriel E. Harris -- Boogie Nights (Got to Keep On Dancing) / Clemonce Heard -- Aeration -- If not memory- / Taylor Johnson -- what we lose in the fire a blown tire makes us see / Raina J. León -- Dew-Drier / Dante Micheaux -- Girl with the golden contacts at the Walmart / Opal Moore -- Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop / John Murillo -- "Let My Anger Be the Celebration We Were Never Supposed to Have" / Natasha Oladokun -- We, the Rubber Men / Iain Haley Pollock -- American Religion / Lynne Procope -- I Wish You Black Sons / Glenis Redmond -- Cathedral / Valencia Robin -- Realism: a poetics / Metta Sa̹ma -- Candelabra with Heads / Nicole Sealey -- For the Dead Homie / Danez Smith -- Global Warming Blues / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- Ars Poetica / Marcus Wicker -- Asterism / Keith S. Wilson -- Resurrection Sunday / L. Lamar Wilson-- uncle shot find(s) out dat aint a brudda sangin I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) / avery r. young --. - Queerness and Gender Identities in Black Poetry / Nagueyalti Warren -- Our child is not yet ten and we are clearing his closet / Remica Bingham-Risher -- After the last flower is trampled / Dexter L. Booth -- Why I Don't Call On Cops / Nandi Comer -- The Skin That Tells / Krista Franklin -- Genesis Janice N. Harrington -- On Reflection / Randall Horton -- Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister / Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- See Him / Bettina Judd -- Ritual for Unbusying / Natasha Marin -- Structural Dilemma / Saretta Morgan -- Résumé Names / Shauna M. Morgan -- I Always Wanna Fall Asleep When My Momma Does My Hair but She Won't Let Me / Nkosi Nkululeko -- Open Season / Justin Phillip Reed -- Only for Now, or, Maafa on a Monday Ride through the City in Which I Decided I Should Just Go On & Die Alone / darlene anita scott -- Hands / Safiya Sinclair -- Aubade -- Blackberries / Amber Flora Thomas -- Loni, with a martini and sapphire balls / Arisa White-- Discipline / Phillip B. Williams -- Blood in My Eye: The Poetics of Trauma and Memory / Dominique Christina -- Homage to My Spiritual Mothers: Audre Lord, Barbara Smith, and Cherrie Moraga / Toi Derricotte  -- Give Me Some Wobble: On Why I Love Phillis Wheatley's Capacious Little Poem / Camille T. Dungy -- How I Wrote "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" / Cornelius Eady -- Let Your Engine Be Love / Ross Gay -- A Poetics of Practice / Terrance Hayes -- Statement on Poetry / Erica Hunt -- My Lyrical Self / Major Jackson -- Black Poetry: The Collective Experience / Tyehimba Jess -- Try to Care about Someone Other Than Yourself: Creating Subtext through Empathy / A. Van Jordan -- Poetics as Response to Certain Tropes as Allergens / Douglas Kearney -- Aporia and the Poetics of Beauty as Non-Resolution / Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Persona Non Grata / Tony Medina -- Space Dream Struggle / E. Ethelbert Miller -- Black Like Everything / Thylias Moss-- As the Crow Flies (A Reorientation) / Mendi Lewis Obadike -- Notes on Voice / Gregory Pardlo -- On Noticing: Notes on Aesthetic Ambition and the Postcolonial Poet / Matthew Shenoda -- We are rapidly running out of ways to write this world / Patricia Smith -- Altogether Unlike Itself: The Uses of Metaphor / Tracy K. Smith -- Thinking in Words (for Lorenzo Thomas and June Jordan) / Patricia Spears Jones -- A Poetics of Empathy / Sharan Strange -- Seeing to Be: Daring the Impossible to Make Each Other Possible / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon -- Memory, Research, Imagination, and the Mining of Historical Poetry / Frank X Walker.. - Toward a Pan-African Poetics / Kwame Dawes -- X / Joshua B. Bennett -- my brother asks me what it's like to live in Utah and not be white / Lillian-Yvonne Bertram -- When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- After Andy Warhol's "Little Race Riot" -- White Privilege / Tara Betts -- Recovery -- Found Art / Destiny O. Birdsong -- Preacher Crow's Sermon on the Ark of Bones / Dexter L. Booth -- Melinated Merman aka Aquabruh Wants to Holler at You -- Thanks / Derrick Weston Brown -- Brown to Browne :: Douglass to Tubman Remix -- Re-Portrait of an Icon / F. Douglas Brown -- The Long Way / Jericho Brown -- Devotion ("I Am on the Battlefield for My Lord") / Cortney Lamar Charleston -- Garden of the Gods / Ama Codjoe -- Anarcha Appears Again and Again / Nandi Comer -- Say, Divine -- My Resistance Is Black / De̹Lana R. A. Dameron -- Jim on the Raft after His "Dream" / Hayes Davis -- Persimmons / Mitchell L. H. Douglas -- application for asylum / Safia Elhillo-- To the Old Square / Chanda Feldman -- Voyage of Kianda (from Angola to the Caribbean): Art Formerly Known as The Sable Venus Speaks Back / Sherese Francis -- A Reckoning: Assata in 1980 / DaMaris B. Hill -- Consume/d / Fred Joiner -- Parable for Refugees / Ladan Osman -- A Fruit We Never Tasted / Xandria Phillips -- From Descent / Lauren Russell -- Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Charif Shanahan -- The View from Down Here / Bianca Lynne Spriggs -- Cankerworms / Cedric Tillman -- Stringing "New" Rhythms in the Present-Future of Black Poetry and Music / Meta DuEwa Jones -- the river it shines pure white / Lillian-Yvonne Bertram -- Charleston / Cortney Lamar Charleston -- Of Being Sick and Tired / Ama Codjoe -- if someone should take your picture & make you black / t'ai freedom ford -- Time Capsule: Franklin / Krista Franklin -- Versal / francine j. harris -- Even When Spilling / Marcus Jackson -- Sugar Shack -- Sure, You Can Ask Me about Hiphop / Alan W. King-- Each Night / Ana-Maurine Lara -- White Ferrari / Shayla Lawson -- The "S" in I Loves You, Porgy -- How I Wish I Could Be as Happy as Zaytoven Playing Piano for Gucci on NPR, Tiny Desk / Nabila Lovelace -- Tapping at Mama's Knees / Cynthia Manick -- Loud Looks / Douglas Manuel -- Ornate Culmination / David Mills -- The Langston Hop / Indigo Moor -- Twenty-Seven w/ "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" / Nkosi Nkululeko -- LAMENTATION (Black Jesus Remix) / Julian Randall -- How the Body Remembers / darlene anita scott -- Upright -- Exit Wound / Kevin Simmonds -- Symphony of Soul / Candice Wiley -- Evensong / Korey Williams --. - "Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning African American 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"--
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USA : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01695
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9780810141544

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