Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
(Modern and Contemporary Poetics

by Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Editor), Lauri Ramey (Editor)

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press (15 Feb. 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0817352791

ISBN-13: 978-0817352790

Review

"The brief introduction appropriately cites Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia and Langston Hughes's Ask Your Mama as benchmark examples of the ambitious modernist experiments of African American poets at mid-century.... With sensitivity, intelligence, and careful work, [the editors] present a bumper crop of quite remarkable poetry!" - Lorenzo Thomas, author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry "Every Goodbye Ain't Gone is unquestionably an anthology whose time has come. I can easily envision diverse audiences eager to read for pleasure, for poetic instruction and influence, for use in undergraduate and/or graduate seminars, and for a critical starting point from which literary historians and chroniclers of African American expressive culture can begin to revise the current accounting of black poetic experiment." - Meta DeEwa Jones, University of Texas at Austin"

About the Author

Aldon Lynn Nielsen is Kelly Professor of American Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and author of Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism and Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation. Lauri Ramey is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of Black British Writing and Sea Change.

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