The furious flowering of African American poetry /
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : essays and conversations in African American poetry / Joanne V. Gabbin
- Langson Hughes : a poet supreme / Kalamu Ya Salaam
- Message to the generations : the mythic hero in Sterling Brown's poetry / Eugenia Collier
- Langson Hughes and Melville Tolson : blues people / Mariann Russell
- Bardic memory and witness in the poetry of Samuel Allen / Edward A. Scott - Rooted displacement in form : Rita Dove's sonnet cycle Mother love / Therese Steffen
- Conversation / Michael S. Harper and Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- Conversation / Eugene Redmond and Jabari Asim
- Bantu, Nkodi, Ndungu, and Nganga : language, politics, music, and religion in African American Poetry / Joyce A. Joyce
- Ballad, the hero, and the ride : a reading of Sterling A. Brown's The last ride of Wild Bill / Mark A. Sanders
- Illocutionary dimensions of poetry : Lee's "A poem to complement other poems" / Jerry W. Ward Jr.
- Conversation / Amirir Baraka and Askia Touré
- t Consciousness, myth and transcendence : symbolic action in three poems on the slave trade / Jon Woodson
- Alice Walker : poesy and the earthling psyche / Ikenna Dieke
- "Calligraphy of black chant" : resiting African American poetries / Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- Conversation / Sherley Anne Williams and Deborah McDowell
- African American epic poetry : the long foreshadowing / Raymond R. Patterson
- Personal and public : three first-person voices in African American poetry / Eric A. Weil
- Conversation / Margaret Alexander Walker and Joanne V. Gabbin
- Blooming in the whirlwind : the early poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks / Joanne V. Gabbin
- Conversation / Gwendolyn Brooks and B. Denise Hawkins
- Song of herself : Lucille Clifton's poems about womanhood / Hilary Holladay
- "Flashbacks through the heart" : Yusef Komunyakaa and the poetry of self-assertion / Angela M. Salas
- What is this new thing? / Jabari Asim.