"Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities."
Some Vague Wife by KathyLouSchultz Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2002 by Atelos ISBN-13: 978-1-891190-12-4, ISBN: 1-891190-12-1
"Prose. Poetry. Part of Atelos' Hip's Road project, which is devoted to publishing writing that challenges the conventional definitions of poetry, Schultz' book does just that. Comprised of three sections of prose and poetry, with the last section entitled A Novel: Some Vague Wife, Schultz continually pushes the boundaries of language and form, while exploring, most often, the constructs of sex, gender, and class. Schultz is the co-edito ..."
"Written for scholars, poets, students, and general readers alike, Schultz's book outlines Rankine's poetic career in all its major facets, including an analysis of Rankine's seminal book, Citizen."
"Working withan understanding ofthe construction of race that mirrorsthese recent
theories—though preceding them by severaldecades—Hughes's poem also
illustrates that the “exchange, assimilation, expropriation, coalition, ordissension”
brought about through diaspora creates multiple black identities that are
dependent, inpart,upon local historical and political conditions.
Thisunderstandingof the multiplicitywithin diasporic “blackn ..."
"Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities."
"A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian wr ..."
The Academic Avant-Garde Poetry and the American University (Hardback) by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews Hardcover, 281 Pages, Published 2023 by Johns Hopkins University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-4493-2, ISBN: 1-4214-4493-3