The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry
A blessing... a service... a race woman's gift in the tradition of benevolent ancestors. This book brings together voices of middle-aged militants and brilliantly sophisticated new generations. It is an alchemical chorus, filled with words, music, chants, kitchen-table conversation, august critical intelligence. This book is standard-setting—you cannot know American poetry without reading it. All hail its editor... all praise to the black academic activism it represents.(Houston A. Baker, Jr., University of Pennsylvania)