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Wrestling with the muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press / Melba Joyce Boyd.

Title: Wrestling with the muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press / Melba Joyce Boyd.
Author: Boyd, Melba Joyce.
Publication: New York : Columbia University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Description

xii, 385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-370) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Wrestling with the Muse -- 1. Beginnings and Endings -- 2. The Fertile Black Bottom of Paradise Valley -- 3. Poets of Black Bottom: Dudley Randall Meets Robert Hayden -- 4. War at Home and Abroad -- 5. The Return: Poetry and Prophecy -- 6. Sojourn and Return -- 7. The Emergence of the Second Renaissance in Detroit -- 8. "Ballad of Birmingham": The Founding of Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement -- 9. "Ya Vas Lyubil": Alexander Pushkin, Dudley Randall, and the Black Russian Connection -- 10. Cultural Wars and Civil Wars -- 11. "Prophets for a New Day": Diversity and Heritage -- 12. The New Black Poets -- 13. Dudley Randall's Poetic Dialectics and the Black Arts Movement -- 14. "After the Killing": Dudley Randall's Black Arts Poetry -- 15. Poetry as Industry -- 16. "Shape of the Invisible": The Rise and Fall of Broadside Press -- 17. "In the Mourning Time": The Return -- 18. A Poet Is Not a Jukebox -- 19. At Peace with the Muse -- 20. "The Ascent" -- App. I. Translating Poetry into Film: The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press -- App. II. Worksheets for "Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker"

ISBN

0231130260 (cloth: alk. paper)

LCCN

2003055411

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries