Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)

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Malin Pereira� s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post� Black Arts Movement generation.

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This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells previously in print. Largely published since 1980, each of these poets has at least four books. Their influence on new generations of poets has been wide-reaching.

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The work of this group, says Pereira, is a departure from the previous generation’s proscriptive manifestos in favor of more inclusive voices, perspectives, and techniques. Although these poets reject a rigid adherence to a specific black aesthetic, their work just as effectively probes racism, stereotyping, and racial politics. Unlike Amiri Baraka� s claim in � Home” that he becomes blacker and blacker, positioning race as a defining essence, these poets imagine a plurality of ideas about the relationship between blackness and black poetry. They question the idea of an established literary canon defining black literature. For these poets, Pereira says, the idea of ��home � is found both in black poetry circles and in the wider transnational community of literature.



A Sarah Mills Hodge Foundation Publication.

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Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication) Review

While this collection of essays is pretty expansive, covering most of the major African American poets over the past few decades, there is little here that couldn't be found elsewhere. By far Wanda Coleman's interview was the most interesting, but this is likely because it was the most provocative. The one essay where the questions and answers didn't appear, if not scripted, ready made. There are endless opportunities to say something thought provoking here, and unfortunately few seem to have been taken. Which is not to say this isn't a good collection for someone unfamiliar with the writings of the author's collected. But if one has read several essays with Yusef Komunyakaa, or Rita Dove, or Elizabeth Alexander or Cornelius Eady, little will be revealed here. That, in a way, is unfortunate, as there is always so much these brilliant writers can say.

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