[PDF] Lenard D Moore And African American Haiku eBook

Author : Ce Rosenow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793653186

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Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore’s haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku, reveals the further development of the African American aesthetic created in his individual poems. Ultimately, the author argues that Moore’s decades-long engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.

Author : Lila Teresa Church
Publisher : Unicorn Press (Nc)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2017
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780877750062

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"This unique and indispensable collection contains a brilliant array of haiku by five members of the Carolina African American Writers Collective"--Dustjacket.

Author : Jianqing Zheng
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781496803030

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The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haiku

Author : John Zheng
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2024-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496853943

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A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America

Author : Lenard D. Moore
Publisher : Carolina Wren Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781949467307

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A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration. In The Geography of Jazz, Moore celebrates jazz music and jazz musicians. Some of the poems address specific events. Others honor individual artists. Many do both. While the poems may not initially signal the rhythms of jazz in their presentation on the page, they convey jazz rhythms through Moore's deft handling of the poetic line and his use of formal techniques including but not limited to assonance, onomatopoeia, and repetition. This collection also includes a new poetic form, jazzku, an innovation that recalls Japanese haiku and tanka.

Author : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0820334316

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Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.

Author : Lenard D. Moore
Publisher : Carolina Wren Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781949467338

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An anthology celebrating twenty-five years of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective edited by founder Lenard D. Moore.

Author : Lenard D Moore
Publisher : Wet Cement Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781732436992

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Lenard D. Moore's Long Rain is a book of elemental tanka poems (similar to haiku) in four sections (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water), each of which is introduced by a short prose haibun. Yes, these poems capture a series of detailed moments, primarily set in the American South, but they also employ an unsettled fragmentary language (no full sentences) to express the flow of experience in a way that gives the book a surprising energy and sense of movement. "Lenard Moore is a Japanese poet who lives in North Carolina, or a North Carolina poet who lives in an imaginary medieval Japan. He has been a farmer, an American soldier in Germany, a schoolteacher; his ancestors came from Africa in chains. He seems, to the world's eye, to be as representative a husband, father, and citizen as any sociologist might point to as a statistically ordinary well-behaved American. And the sociologist would be wrong, for Lenard Moore is a poet, and all good poets are extraordinary, and very good ones are unique." -from the introduction by Guy Davenport.

Author : John Ehle
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590177630

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Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community. Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a little livestock and a handful of crude tools, they enter the mountain world—one of transcendent beauty and cruel necessity—and begin to make a world of their own. Mooney and Imy are the first to confront an unsettled country that is sometimes paradise and sometimes hell. They will soon be followed by others. John Ehle is a master of the American language. He has an ear for dialogue and an eye for nature and a grasp of character that have established The Land Breakers as one of the great fictional reckonings with the making of America.

Author : Reginald Martin, Ph.D.
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1999-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429954310

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The overwhelming power of the erotic imagination is brought to full flower in this masterful collection of African-American writings. With pieces from more than seventy writers, Dark Eros explores the erotic possibilities as imagined and reported by authors both well-known and emerging. Using the literary to trace the range of the erotic impulse, this collection of writers and writings---poetry, fiction, and essays---covers the length and breadth of styles and emotions in contemporary African-American writing. As editor Reginald Martin notes, "The pieces collected in this volume throb with the tempo and tenor of writers who have defined the erotic verve of our urban times. Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, New Orleans-every place there is a bus line or dance club has produced African-American eroticism..." The result is a volume that is both compelling and necessary---an exploration of the African-American through the erotic.