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EVERY GOODBYE AIN'T GONE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF INNOVATIVE POETRY BY AFRICAN AMERICANS (MODERN & CONTEMPORARY POETICS) By Lauri Ramey & Aldon Lynn Nielsen & Lauri Ramey **BRAND NEW**.

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PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press

ISBN-100817352791

ISBN-139780817352790

eBay Product ID (ePID)46872018

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Edition2

Book TitleEvery Goodbye Ain't Gone : an Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicAnthologies (Multiple Authors), General

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry

AuthorLauri Ramey

Book SeriesModern and Contemporary Poetics Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-014208

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Every Goodbye Ain't Gone is unquestionably an anthology whose time has come. I can easily envision diverse audiences eager to read for pleasure, for poetic instruction and influence, for use in undergraduate and/or graduate seminars, and for a critical starting point from which literary historians and chroniclers of African American expressive culture can begin to revise the current accounting of black poetic experiment."-- Meta DuEwa Jones, University of Texas at Austin, The brief introduction appropriately cites Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia and Langston Hughes's Ask Your Mama as benchmark examples of the ambitious modernist experiments of African American poets at mid-century. . . . With sensitivity, intelligence, and careful work, [the editors] present a bumper crop of quite remarkable poetry!"-- Lorenzo Thomas, author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry , The brief introduction appropriately cites Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia and Langston Hughes's Ask Your Mama as benchmark examples of the ambitious modernist experiments of African American poets at mid-century. . . . With sensitivity, intelligence, and careful work, [the editors] present a bumper crop of quite remarkable poetry!"-- Lorenzo Thomas, author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry , "The brief introduction appropriately cites Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia and Langston Hughes's Ask Your Mama as benchmark examples of the ambitious modernist experiments of African American poets at mid-century. . . . With sensitivity, intelligence, and careful work, [the editors] present a bumper crop of quite remarkable poetry!"-- Lorenzo Thomas, author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry , "The brief introduction appropriately cites Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia and Langston Hughes's Ask Your Mama as benchmark examples of the ambitious modernist experiments of African American poets at mid-century. . . . With sensitivity, intelligence, and careful work, [the editors present a bumper crop of quite remarkable poetry!"-- Lorenzo Thomas, author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry, " Every Goodbye Ain't Gone is unquestionably an anthology whose time has come. I can easily envision diverse audiences eager to read for pleasure, for poetic instruction and influence, for use in undergraduate and/or graduate seminars, and for a critical starting point from which literary historians and chroniclers of African American expressive culture can begin to revise the current accounting of black poetic experiment."-- Meta DuEwa Jones, University of Texas at Austin , Every Goodbye Ain't Gone is unquestionably an anthology whose time has come. I can easily envision diverse audiences eager to read for pleasure, for poetic instruction and influence, for use in undergraduate and/or graduate seminars, and for a critical starting point from which literary historians and chroniclers of African American expressive culture can begin to revise the current accounting of black poetic experiment."-- Meta DuEwa Jones, University of Texas at Austin

Dewey Decimal811.008/0896073

SynopsisShowcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry. Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1960s, a far-reaching revolution in aesthetics and prosody by black poets ensued, some working independently and others in organized groups. Little of this new work was reflected in the anthologies and syllabi of college English courses of the period. Even during the 1970s, when African American literature began to receive substantial critical attention, the work of many experimental black poets continued to be neglected. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone presents the groundbreaking work of many of these poets who carried on the innovative legacies of Melvin Tolson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden. Whereas poetry by such key figures such as Amiri Baraka, Tolson, Jayne Cortez, Clarence Major, and June Jordan is represented, this anthology also elevates into view the work of less studied poets such as Russell Atkins, Jodi Braxton, David Henderson, Bob Kaufman, Stephen Jonas, and Elouise Loftin. Many of the poems collected in the volume are currently unavailable and some will appear in print here for the first time. Coeditors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey provide a critical introduction that situates the poems historically and highlights the ways such poetry has been obscured from view by recent critical and academic practices. The result is a record of experimentation, instigation, and innovation that links contemporary African American poetry to its black modernist roots and extends the terms of modern poetics into the future.

LC Classification NumberPS591.N4E937 2006