Renegade Poetics
Subtitle: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
By: Evie Shockley
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781609380588
Subjects: African American aesthetics; African Americans in literature; History and criticism; American poetry; African American authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing the subject: Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad"; title: Expanding the subject: Sonia Sanchez's Does your house have lions?; title: Complicating the subject: Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge as African American blues epic; title: Protest / Poetry: Anne Spencer's Garden of "Raceless" Verse; title: Black and green: on the nature of Ed Roberson's poetics; title: Will Alexander's surrealist nature: toward a diasporic black aesthetics coda: black aesthetics at the turn of the twenty-first century.