[PDF] Lenard D Moore Poet Lecturer eBook

Author : John Zheng
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,96 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 : Ce Rosenow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 16,31 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 : Tony Medina
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2001-10-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0609808400

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Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry. “Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming together to create a dialogue and to jam–not slam. This is our mouth on paper, our hearts on our sleeves, our refusal to shut up and swallow our silence. These poems are tough, honest, astute, perceptive, lyrical, blunt, sad, funny, heartbreaking, and true. They shout, they curse, they whisper, and sing. But most of all, they tell it like it is.” –Tony Medina, from the Introduction

Author : Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1101144173

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In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide array of ethnic perspectives on growing up in America. Leading the reader into the living-rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and movie houses of America, distinguished writers from all points of the American ethnic landscape shed light on the space between conformity and difference, and examine the struggle between the need to belong and the pull of one's cultural roots. With insight, wit, and poignancy, the contributors to this anthology recall their attempts to reconcile family from the old country with the powerful messages about race, gender and class confronting them in their new surroundings. A collection of superb and moving writing, Identity Lessons deconstructs conceptions of personal and national identity, and forms an indispensable primer for understanding our cultural selves.

Author : Nikky Finney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780820329253

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More than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to the South in this collection of poems, which features contributions by Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, Sonia Sanchez, and other notables. Simultaneous.

Author : Carolyn Beard Whitlow
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 161168529X

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The sestina (of medieval French origin) is a complex poetic form of 39 lines (six sestets and a three-line "envoy") in which the six end-words (teleutons) of the lines of the first sestet stanza are repeated in a specific order as teleutons in the five succeeding sestets. In the envoy, the six teleutons are again picked up, one of them being buried in, and one finishing, each line. Because of the complexity of the form, the sestina fell out of favor with poets for several decades. However, a twenty-first century revival of the form is underway. This is the first anthology of sestinas that showcases both traditional and innovative examples of the form by modern and contemporary poets, award winners, and emerging writers alike. Organized by such themes as Americana; Art; Love and Sex; and Memory, Contemplation, Retrospection, and Death, the collection also includes sestinas with irregular teleutons and unconventional sestinas. An evocative introduction by Marilyn Krysl acquaints readers with the form. The volume concludes with useful indexes of first lines and teleutons, increasing access to the poems beyond the poets' names.

Author : Nicholas Frankovich
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231112345

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Responding to the enormous interest in African-American literature, Columbia University Press is publishing a Granger's(R) index devoted exclusively to poetry by African-Americans. To compile the Index to African-American Poetry, a team of consultants indentified the best, most widely available anthologies and volumes of collected and selected works. The result: this new index includes more than 11,000 poems by 659 poets.