Renegade poetics : black aesthetics and formal innovation in African American poetry / Evie Shockley.

Author/creator Shockley, Evie, 1965-
Format Book
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxii, 260 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
American poetry--African American authors. --History and criticism.
African American aesthetics.
African Americans in literature.

SeriesContemporary North American poetry series
Contemporary North American poetry series. ^A631765
Contents Changing the subject: Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad" -- Expanding the subject: Sonia Sanchez's Does your house have lions? -- Complicating the subject: Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge as African American blues epic -- Protest / Poetry: Anne Spencer's Garden of "Raceless" Verse -- Black and green: on the nature of Ed Roberson's poetics -- Will Alexander's surrealist nature: toward a diasporic black aesthetics coda: black aesthetics at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231-248) and index.
LCCN 2011007473
ISBN9781609380588 (alk. paper)
ISBN1609380584 (pbk. : alk. paper)