A Black arts poetry machine : Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets / David Grundy.

"A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics.
Main Author:	Grundy, David (Poet) (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
Series:	Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics.
Subjects:	Umbra Poets Workshop. American poetry > African American authors > 20th century > History and criticism. American poetry > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism. African American poets > New York (State) > New York. African American poets. American poetry. American poetry > African American authors. New York (State) > New York. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	viii, 264 pages ; 25 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction. Amiri Baraka, the Umbra Workshop, and the writing of literary history
"A tale of two cities" : Umbra, internationalism and the death of Lumumba
"Poems that kill" : Amiri Baraka's magic words
"Space of a nation" : David Henderson writes the city
Language, violence and "the collective mind" in Calvin C. Hernton
"Home is never where you were born" : Calvin Hernton's "Medicine man"
"Return to English turn" : Tom Dent
Memory and myth in Lorenzo Thomas' "The bathers".