Summoning our saints : the poetry and prose of Brenda Marie Osbey /
"Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South's and the nation's most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function duri...
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Mapping a starry poetics: the achievement of Brenda Marie Osbey / John Wharton Lowe
- The origins of Osbey's poetics: the achievement of Ceremony for Minneconjoux and In These Houses / John Wharton Lowe
- "And I can see to it you stay dead / on a daily basis": Brenda Marie Osbey's culturally based aesthetics (a poet's perspective) / Doris Davenport
- Desperate measures / Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- Wild and holy women in the poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey / Andrea Benton Rushing
- Saints of a darker hue in Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints / Reggie Scott Young
- Haunted memories: disruptive ghosts in the poems of Brenda Marie Osbey / Tracy Watts
- Imagining history: Brenda Marie Osbey and the poetics of imagination / Thadious Davis
- Crossing the gulf: ecopoetic revisions of the coast in Brenda Marie Osbey, Natasha Trethewey, and Yusef Komunyakaa / Daniel Cross Turner
- Feeding the gulf dead: an ofrenda of response to Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints and All Souls / Dolores Flores-Silva with Keith Cartwright
- The roots and routes of Brenda Marie Osbey's Black Internationalism / Malin Pereira
- Introduction to 1967: on the semicentenary of the desegregation of the College of William and Mary / Hermine Pinson
- Chronology of the life and career of Brenda Marie Osbey.