num_pages: 480
description: 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 nations 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 Whats next for Black poetic expression?
language: English
title: Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
publisher: TriQuarterly