Cosmic deputy : poetry and context 1968-2019 /
"Cosmic Deputy is a literary memoir from esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam. Representative poems from Salaam's fifty years of writing are interspersed in an overarching essay tracing the poet's multitude of influences. Toward mapping a theory of a Black...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Orleans, LA :
Runagate Press : The University of New Orleans Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Cosmic Deputy is a literary memoir from esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam. Representative poems from Salaam's fifty years of writing are interspersed in an overarching essay tracing the poet's multitude of influences. Toward mapping a theory of a Black literary aesthetic, Salaam explores the cultural inheritances of Black resistance movements, blues music, and the ways in which these sources and others have shaped not only his own work but Black letters more broadly"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 404 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781608011896 1608011895 |