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Wrestling with the muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press /

And as I groped in darknessand felt the pain of millions, gradually, like day driving night across the continent, I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.?Dudley Randall, from ""Roses and Revolutions""In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914?2000) wrote "&q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyd, Melba Joyce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."