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Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and Meta DuEwa Jones. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice, to ask, “What’s next for Black poetic expression?”
- GenresPoetry
480 pages, Paperback
First published December 16, 2019
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May 1, 2020
A stunning collection of important voices!
October 7, 2021
A terrific anthology exploring contemporary Black poetics.
April 23, 2023
Love the poems. Some of the essays are above my head.
March 29, 2024
This was a big chunky anthology and it's worth far more than it's page count. There is such a wealth of knowledge from poets. Such great representation across the diaspora. My favorite part (as a poet myself) was treasure trove of essays in the back of the book. It was like taking a workshop. I will return to this book again and again!
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