This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five...
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This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction: How Do I Make that Sound? A New Feminist Poetics; 1 Finding Her Voice: The Body Politics of Sherley Anne Williams's Blues; 2 Nationhood Re-Formed: Revolutionary Style and Practice in Sonia Sanchez's Jazz Poetics; 3 Talk to Me: Ecofeminist Disruptions in the Jazz Poetry of Jayne Cortez; 4 Shape-Shifting: The Urban Geographies of Wanda Coleman's Jazz Poetry; 5 Jazz's Word for It: Harryette Mullen and the Politics of Intellectualism; Conclusion: ""Too Many Books For Our Eyes""; Future Politics, Future Poetries; Notes; Bibliography