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What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) by Aldon Lynn Nielsen; Lauri Ramey; Michele Myatt Quinn; Will Alexander is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone , covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say , editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the collection in its black modernist roots. In tracing the fascinating and unexpected paths of experimentation these poets explored, however, Nielsen and Ramey reveal the tight delineations of African American poetry that omitted noncanonical forms. This invigorating panoply of work, when restored, brings into focus the creatively elastic frontiers and multifaceted expressions of contemporary black poetry. Several of the poets discussed in What I Say forge

Author

Aldon Lynn Nielsen; Lauri Ramey; Michele Myatt Quinn; Will Alexander

Publisher

University of Alabama Press, The University Alabama Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817388003

Subjects

Poetry, Philosophy, Literary Fiction