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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contemporary North American poetry series.
Main Author: Shockley, Evie, 1965-
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011], ©2011.
Series:Contemporary North American poetry series.
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American aesthetics.
African Americans in literature.
Physical Description:xii, 260 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.