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What I Say

Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

What I Say( )
Editor: Nielsen, Aldon Lynn
Ramey, Lauri
Preface by: Nielsen, Aldon Lynn
Ramey, Lauri
Introduction by: Giscombe, C. S.
Contribution by: Giscombe, C. S.
Alexander, Willliam L.
Allen, Ron
Anderson, T. J.
Bryant, Tisa
Deas, Pia
Gladman, Renee
Harris, Duriel
Holiday, Harmony
Hunt, Erica
Hunter, Kim
Jacques, Geoffrey
Kearney, Douglas
Keene, John
Mackey, Nathaniel
Martin, Dawn Lundy
McMorris, Mark
Morris, Tracie
Moten, Fred
Mullen, Harryette
Obadike, Mendi Lewis
Patterson, G. E.
Patton, Julie
Rankine, Claudia
Richards, Deborah
Shockley, Evie
singleton, giovanni
Williams, Tyrone
Wilson, Ronaldo V.
Anderson, T. J.
Series title:Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8173-5800-6
Publication Date:Jun 2015
Publisher:University of Alabama Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $39.95USD $39.95
Book Description:

What I Say 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...
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Book Details
Pages:344
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / American / African American & Black
Poetry / American / General
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:1.232 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Dawn Lundy Martin is an American Poet, writer, Activist. She earned her BA at the University of Connecticut, her Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and her PhD on Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is an instructor for the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. She is co-editor with Vivien Labaton of The Fire This Time. She is the author of Discipline, and A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering. She has received the Academy of American Arts and Science's May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Her poetry collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry.

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