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A Black Arts Poetry Machine Dr David Grundy (University of Cambridge, UK)

A Black Arts Poetry Machine By Dr David Grundy (University of Cambridge, UK)

A Black Arts Poetry Machine by Dr David Grundy (University of Cambridge, UK)

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A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets by Dr David Grundy (University of Cambridge, UK)

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.

A Black Arts Poetry Machine Reviews

Grundy has produced a notable contribution to the field of American literary and cultural studies not only in its attention to Umbra, but also in its attention to the complexities of how we approach and understand literary movements. * Journal of Beat Studies *
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. * CHOICE *
The book produces some fine close readings and provides a useful (re)introduction to poets such as Henderson and Dent. * American Literary Scholarship *
By granting more attention to Tom Dent, David Henderson, Calvin Hernton, and Lorenzo Thomas, A Black Arts Poetry Machine remains specific and attentive to the range of approaches and poetic responses to the struggle for rights and community with the breadth of a 'workshop' rather than the unity of a 'movement'. * The Year's Work in English Studies *

About Dr David Grundy (University of Cambridge, UK)

David Grundy teaches at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Baraka, Umbra, and the Writing of Literary History 1. A Tale of Two Cities: Umbra, Internationalism and the Death of Lumumba 2. Poems That Kill: Amiri Baraka's Magic Words 3. Space of a Nation: David Henderson Writes the City 4. Language, Violence and the Collective Mind in Calvin C. Hernton 5. Home is Nowhere Where You Were Born: Calvin C. Hernton's Medicine Man 6. Return to English Turn: Tom Dent 7. Memory and Myth in Lorenzo Thomas' The Bathers Conclusion: If Our Heads are Harder Notes Bibliography Index

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NLS9781350178380
9781350178380
1350178381
A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets by Dr David Grundy (University of Cambridge, UK)
Dr David Grundy (University of Cambridge, UK)
Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2020-08-20
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