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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Annette DeboPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9780810146884ISBN 10: 0810146886 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 15 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction The Contemporary Wave of Historical Poetry Chapter 1 Praising the Seers: Celebrating the Historical Influence of Robert Hayden, Michael S. Harper, and Rita Dove Chapter 2 Digging Up the Past: Elizabeth Alexander’s The Venus Hottentot Chapter 3 Tending the Graves: Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard Chapter 4 Achieving the Extraordinary: A. Van Jordan’s M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A Chapter 5 Sampling History: Kevin Young’s To Repel Ghosts: The Remix Chapter 6 Reconciling the Past: Frank X Walker’s Turn Me Loose Chapter 7 Excavating Captive Lives: Camille T. Dungy’s Suck on the Marrow Conclusion The Historical Impulse, the Zeitgeist of a Generation Notes BibliographyReviews“As a sharp-eyed and hospitable introduction to the most ambitious poems of Elizabeth Alexander, Camille Dungy, Kevin Young, and company, this book has few equals. And its central focus—the fine art and raw politics of retelling Black history in the twenty-first century—could not be more relevant.” —William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis """As a sharp-eyed and hospitable introduction to the most ambitious poems of Elizabeth Alexander, Camille Dungy, Kevin Young, and company, this book has few equals. And its central focus--the fine art and raw politics of retelling Black history in the twenty-first century--could not be more relevant."" --William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis" Author InformationAnnette Debo is a professor of English at Western Carolina University. She is the author of The American H.D. (2012) and editor of H.D.'s Within the Walls and What Do I Love? (2014), as well as coeditor of the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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