Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context: 1968 2019

by Kalamu ya Salaam

Cosmic Deputy is a literary memoir from esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam. Representative poems from Salaam's fifty years of writing are interspersed in an overarching essay tracing the poet's multitude of influences. Toward mapping a theory of a Black literary aesthetic, Salaam explores the cultural inheritances of Black resistance movements, blues music, and the ways in which these sources and others have shaped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608011895
• ISBN13: 9781608011896
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up