Author: Nikky Finney
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: cave, canem, anthology, south, lean, black, poets, ringing
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-03-25
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0820329266
ISBN-13: 9780820329260

The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region’s history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to--the South.Voices new to the scene appear in The Ringing Ear alongside some of the leading names in American literature today, including Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Harryette Mullen, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady,

Author: Kyle G. Dargan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: prize, poetry, canem, cave, listening
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2004-09-20
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0820326615
ISBN-13: 9780820326610

Kyle Dargan’s debut collection of poetry, The Listening, searches through the cluttered surface of contemporary life to tune into the elemental sounds within the marrow of living/life. Throughout the collection, Dargan interweaves elements of his heritage with the present day--jazz influences blend with hip-hop; neoslave narratives run parallel with the intimate tale of civil rights leaders; post-9/11 America is juxtaposed with family portraits of the sixties and seventies--to reveal the continuous, though ever changing, music of the world around us. Whether capturing the famous Ali-Fraz

Author: Major Jackson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: poetry, prize, canem, cave, saturn, leaving
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-02-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 082032342X
ISBN-13: 9780820323428

Leaving Saturn, chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage, and creativity he witnessed among his family, neighbors, and friends while growing up in Philadelphia. His poems hauntingly reflect urban decay and violence, yet at the same time they rejoice in the sustaining power of music and the potency of community. Jackson also honors artists who have served as models of resistance and maintained their own faith in the belief of t