"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells pr ..."
"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."
"Cave Canem has for the past ten years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Founded in 1996 by prizewinning poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Cave Canem began as a weeklong summer workshop/retreat and has now expanded to include regional workshops, poetry readings, a series of public conversations between major poets and emerging younger poets, and an annual first-book prize. ..."
"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."
"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells p ..."
"What I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that ali??lows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by e ..."
" The finest essays from the newest generation of critics and poet-critics are gathered together in this volume documenting the growth in readership and awareness of avant-garde poetries. This collection demonstrates the breadth and openness of the field of avant-garde poetry by introducing a wide range of work in poetics, theory, and criticism from emerging writers. Examining the directions innovative poetry has taken since the emergenc ..."
"99 Poets/1999 presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, culture, and temperament. With contributions from the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and China, the volume features responses to questions posed by the guest editor Charles Bernstein—responses that range from historical to imaginary and from philosophical to poetic.Each poet wa ..."
"Speech/Acts brings together new and recent works by a generation of artists influenced by black experimental poetry. Recognizing language as a primary method of expressing and maintaining power, these artists use poetry as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated and abstracted. Artists Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, ..."
"Poetry. Women's Studies. Introduction by founding editor Lee Ann Brown. Since 1989, Tender Buttons Press has been dedicated to innovative writing. From cut-ups to clairvoyance, the forms championed by Tender Buttons authors have altered the possible and probable of new poetics. TENDER OMNIBUS gathers the first 25 years of Tender Buttons Press in a single volume. The OMNIBUS includes in full: Bernadette Mayer's SONNETS Anne Waldman's ..."
"Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, at OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery, August 18 - November 17, 2012. This catalogue documents the solo exhibition by Otis alumna Alison Saar (MFA 1981). Being informed by artistic traditions from the Americas to Africa and beyond and from a mixed racial upbringing, Saar fuses her paradoxical responses to the black and white delineations of political and social forc ..."
""The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be "forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women s voices, and the future of poetry.Together, these essays and interviews highlight the impulses and influences that drive Mullen s work as a poet and thinker, and suggest unique pos ..."
"Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the mi ..."
"This is an anthology of irreverence and humor in the hands of our best poets. Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfooler ..."
New California Poetry Ser. Sleeping with the Dictionary by HarryetteMullen 85 Pages, Published 2002 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92783-4, ISBN: 0-520-92783-4
Freeing the Soul Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by HarryetteMullen, Albert Gelpi Phd Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49751-0, ISBN: 0-521-49751-5
"Freeing the Soul is a critical literary study of slave narrative, focusing on the texts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, nineteenth-century contemporaries and two of the most widely-read authors of US slave narratives. By contrasting representations of the heroic, solitary male slave narrator with the domestic, community-oriented female, Harryette Mullen identifies marked differences in these authors' conceptualisations of gend ..."
Freeing the Soul Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by HarryetteMullen, Albert Gelpi Phd Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49753-4, ISBN: 0-521-49753-1
"Freeing the Soul is a critical literary study of slave narrative, focusing on the texts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, nineteenth-century contemporaries and two of the most widely-read authors of US slave narratives. By contrasting representations of the heroic, solitary male slave narrator with the domestic, community-oriented female, Harryette Mullen identifies marked differences in these authors' conceptualisations of gend ..."
Trimmings by HarryetteMullen Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1991 by Tender Buttons Books ISBN-13: 978-0-927920-02-5, ISBN: 0-927920-02-6
"I have heard variations of this story again and again-this African goddess who can make dreams come true. Up and down the coast of West Africa, fishermen would not dare to leave the shore without first asking for her blessing. I am a sailor who was never very superstitious. More than anything, I know that the sea is never to be taken lightly. However, I have rituals that I perform whenever I set foot upon a seagoing vessel. I have also ..."
Oreo(Reprint) (New Directions Paperbook) by Fran Ross, HarryetteMullen, Danzy Senna Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2322-5, ISBN: 0-8112-2322-1
"A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of ..."