Cosmic Deputy : Poetry and Context
Subtitle: 1968 - 2019
Publisher: University of New Orleans Publishing
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781608011940
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Description: "Cosmic Deputy is a literary memoir from esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam. Representative poems from Salaam's fifty years of writing are interspersed in an overarching essay tracing the poet's multitude of influences. Toward mapping a theory of a Black literary aesthetic, Salaam explores the cultural inheritances of Black resistance movements, blues music, and the ways in which these sources and others have shaped not only his own work but Black letters more broadly"--