Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393339408 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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The anthology focuses on post-1960s poetry and includes such poets as Rita Dove, Ai, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Terrence Hayes, Elizabeth Alexander, Major Jackson, Carl Phillips, Harryette Mullen, and Yusef Komunyakaaartists who, using a wide range of styles and forms, are cultivating a poetry of personal voice and interiority that speaks against the backdrop of community and anscestry.. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote themselves to the art of their poems and to the ideas they embody. These poets bear witness to the interior landscapes of their own individual selves or examine the private or personal worlds of invented personae and, therefore, of human beings living in our modern and postmodern worlds. More than seventy poets are represented in this innovative new antholo
Poems, in which, as Tracy K. Rowell then rolls out the “Heirs” in three successive waves of poets writing in the 1980s up to the present, netting such stars as Elizabeth Alexander, Kevin Young, Natasha Trethewey, and Terrance Hayes along with incandescent emerging writers. From Booklist This spirited and substantial anthology confirms an inadequately appreciated literary phenomenon: African American poetry is flourishing. Smith writes, “each word is a wish.” --Donna Seaman . Illuminating poet statements enhance the resonance of this magnificent gathering of poems subtle and declarative, intense and mischievous in their response to questions of inheritance and independence, community and self, life bitter and sweet. As Rowell asserts in his infor
c q's complaint Case Quarter the best way to read any anthology is to skip the prefaces and introductions, and scan through the table of contents looking for favorites, or for poets you've heard about and now have an opportunity to finally sample, or as an introduction to voices new to you for the unexpected poem, or poet, which may become one of your favorites in the future. if you're interested in exploring a specific type of poetry, say serbian, nature, or 17th century british, the anthology title will give you that i. "A definitive starting point for interest in contemporary black poetry" according to Scott Woods. As genre anthologies go, this one is pretty top notch. In so much as any cultural snapshot of poetry can do justice to the varied and rich history of a group's artistic offering, "Angles" does. It wisely - and thankfully - spends much of its Norton-allowable heft on poets who made their mark post-1960s, and the breadth of editor Charles Henry Rowell's selections is impressive. One might argue about which poems are included on a given black poet, but there should be little argument as to wheth. Five Stars JessyK beautiful readstill reading it
He is a professor of English at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he lives. Charles Henry Rowell is the founder and editor of the premier literary and cultural journal of the African diaspora, Callaloo.