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A Black Arts Poetry Machine by David Grundy offers a groundbreaking study of the Umbra Workshop, a central hub for the African American avant-garde in 1960s New York. This work examines a vital center of poetry readings, performance, and radical politics. Through new archival research and close readings, the book explores how the group's innovative poetic forms responded to urban insurrection and state violence. This scholarly text provides a detailed look at the work of influential poets such as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas, and Calvin Hernton. As part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics, this volume recovers the history of a neglected group that shaped the landscape of radical politics and literature through their unique creative expressions.

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This Bloomsbury academic study examines the Umbra Workshop and its role in the 1960s New York African American avant-garde.

The book uses new archival research to provide a deep look at the work of poets like Amiri Baraka and Lorenzo Thomas.

David Grundy explores how innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence.

This volume serves as a detailed scholarly resource for the study of the Umbra poets and their literary impact.

The text offers close readings of poetry from influential figures including Calvin Hernton.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
29 November 2018
Listed Since
31 January 2018

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