Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the principal architects of black criticism. His critical essays and books are seminal works that give an insider's perspective of literature by and about blacks. Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became familiar with Brown's poetry and criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, called him -an original militant of Negritude, a...
Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been t...
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
Edited by Joanne V. Gabbin
The Furious Flower Conference of 1994 represented the largest gathering of African American writers at one event in nearly thirty years. In that crucial span of time, African American poetry had evolved into an art less overtly political and more introspective; it had also shown dramatic growth--both in the number of its readers and its practitioners.
As a second Furious Flower Conference prepares to convene, Joanne Gabbin has assembled a remarkable selection of...
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
