The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium

by Lauri Ramey, Paul Breman

Overview

This innovative volume brings together never-before-published primary works and extensive bibliographic resources on this groundbreaking publishing venture. Materials include memoirs, retrospectives, bibliographies, and detailed archival information that are essential to scholars working in the fields of twentieth-century black poetry, transatlantic studies, and book history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472404817
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	01/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Lauri Ramey is Professor of Creative Writing and English, and Director, Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Table of Contents

The Heritage Series: An Introduction; Essays; “The Time of the Whirlwind and the Fire:” Dudley Randall, the Heritage Series and the Broadside Press Connection; Whose Images? Waring Cuney and the Harlem Renaissance Idea of the Poet's Work; Bardic Memory and Witness in the Poetry of Samuel Allen; Russell Atkins: “Heretofore”; Clarence Major and Mark Twain Abroad; Spiritual Witness in the Poetry of Dolores Kendrick; Audre Lorde: The Voice of Multiple Consciousness; “Ray Durem: Take No Prisoners ”; Owen Vincent Dodson: Faith and Sorrow; Sorrow and Faith; Calvin C. Hernton: Portrait of a Poet; Memoirs and Reflections; The Heritage Series: A Memoir (excerpts); Paul Breman's Heritage Series of Black Poetry 1; Poetry and the Heritage Series 1; Reflections on the Heritage Series; Heritage and “Black” Poetry in the 1970s; Paul Breman and Black Poetry; Ebele Oseye as Poet; The Responsibility and Power of Art; 'Bout me, 'bout you, 'bout us (excerpts) 1; The Comic Vision of Robert Hayden: A Brief Remembrance; Memories of My Father: Ray Durem; W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois in the Netherlands, 1958; Statements on Poetry and Poetics; Statement 1; Statement 1; Statement 1; Statement 1; Statement 1; Introduction: The Wright Poems by Conrad Kent Rivers 1; On Negritude 1; First Editorial as Editor of The New African (excerpt) 1; Poems

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Brent Hayes Edwards

"A rich and revelatory portrait of one of the most extraordinary publishing ventures in the history of African diasporic literature. To read this research compendium is to revise the map of 1960s black poetry, to sense the submarine links among writers across the Atlantic and across generations. With its inclusion of Harlem Renaissance forerunners as well as mid-century modernists and Black Arts experimentalists, the Heritage Series' visionary company forces us to recalibrate our understanding of the politics of poetic innovation."--(Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University, and author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (2003))