What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

by Mendi Lewis Obadike, Tisa Bryant, Duriel E. Harris, et al.

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 examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817358005
• ISBN13: 9780817358006
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"