A Black Arts Poetry Machine - (Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics) by David Grundy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence and urban insurrection. Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. <p/>Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, <i>A Black Arts Poetry Machine</i> is a groundbreaking study of this important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence and urban insurrection. Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing relevance of the work of the Umbra Workshop today and is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Grundy (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) chronicles the Umbra poets, historical moments (for instance the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965), and the rise of black nationalism, investigating them--and the literature that came out of this period of awakening--with equal thoroughness ... Grundy is also an excellent close reader of poetry. Though Grundy is an academic, there is no academic jargon in this well-researched, clearly presented study. He does an excellent job of dealing with the complexities of this history and how it informed the period." - <i>CHOICE <p/></i>The book produces some fine close readings and provides a useful (re)introduction to poets such as Henderson and Dent. - <i>American Literary Scholarship<br></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Grundy</b> teaches at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK.
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