Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey

Description:

An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans

"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 DuEwa Jones, George Washington University

"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

Aldon Lynn Nielsen is Kelly Professor of American Literature at 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.

Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey

ISBN: 0817352791
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication Date: 2006
Format: Trade Paperback, 306 pages
Book Type: New