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Author:

Shockley, Evie, 1965-

Title:

Renegade poetics : black aesthetics and formal innovation in African American poetry / Evie Shockley.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American aesthetics.
African Americans in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Changing the subject : Gwendolyn Brooks's The Anniad -- Expanding the subject : Sonia Sanchez's Does your house have lions? -- Complicating the subject : Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge as African American blues epic -- Protest / Poetry : Anne Spencer's Garden of Raceless Verse -- Black and green : on the nature of Ed Roberson's poetics -- Will Alexander's surrealist nature : toward a diasporic black aesthetics coda : black aesthetics at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series

ISBN:

1609380584 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9781609380588 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)704907858

LCCN:

2011007473

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)