Wrestling with the muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press / Melba Joyce Boyd.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyd, Melba Joyce
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Randall, Dudley, > 1914-2000.
Broadside Press (Detroit, Mich.)
American literature > African American authors > Publishing > Michigan > Detroit.
Literature publishing > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > United States > Biography.
African American arts > Michigan > Detroit.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
African American poets > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : wrestling with the muse
  • Beginnings and endings
  • The fertile black bottom of Paradise Valley
  • Poets of black bottom : Dudley Randall meets Robert Hayden
  • War at home and abroad
  • The return : poetry and prophecy
  • Sojourn and return
  • The emergence of the second renaissance in Detroit
  • "Ballad of Birmingham" : the founding of Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement
  • "Ya vas Lyubil" : Alexander Pushkin, Dudley Randall, and the Black Russian connection
  • Cultural wars and civil wars
  • "Prophets for a new day" : diversity and heritage
  • The new Black poets
  • Dudley Randall's poetic dialectics and the Black Arts Movement
  • "After the killing" : Dudley Randall's Black Arts poetry
  • Poetry as industry
  • "Shape of the invisible" : the rise and fall of Broadside Press
  • "In the mourning time" : the return
  • A poet is not a jukebox
  • At peace with the muse
  • "The ascent"
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix I : translating poetry in to film : The Black unicorn : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
  • Appendix II : worksheets for "Frederick Douglass and the slave breaker".