Wrestling with the Muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press

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Wrestling with the Muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 368 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780231130264
  • DDC分類 811

基本説明

A biography of the poet and publisher who paved the way for black poetry in America.

Full Description

And as I groped in darkness and felt the pain of millions, gradually, like day driving night across the continent, I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision. -Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions" In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914-2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in Pink," about the assassination of President Kennedy. When both were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965, Randall published them as broadsides. Thus was born the Broadside Press, whose popular chapbooks opened the canon of American literature to the works of African American writers. Dudley Randall, one of the great success stories of American small-press history, was also poet laureate of Detroit, a civil-rights activist, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Melba Joyce Boyd was an editor at Broadside, was Randall's friend and colleague for twenty-eight years, and became his authorized biographer.
Her book is an account of the interconnections between urban and labor politics in Detroit and the broader struggles of black America before and during the Civil Rights era. But also, through Randall's poetry and sixteen years of interviews, the narrative is a multipart dialogue between poets, Randall, the author, and the history of American letters itself, and it affords unique insights into the life and work of this crucial figure.

Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Wrestling with the Muse 1. Beginnings and Endings 2. The Fertile Black Bottom of Paradise Valley 3. Poets of Black Bottom: Dudley Randall Meets Robert Hayden 4. War at Home and Abroad 5. The Return: Poetry and Prophecy 6. Sojourn and Return 7. The Emergence of the Second Renaissance in Detroit 8. "Ballad of Birmingham": The Founding of Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement 9. "Ya Vas Lyubil": Alexander Pushkin, Dudley Randall, and the Black Russian Connection 10. Cultural Wars and Civil Wars 11. "Prophets for a New Day": Diversity and Heritage 12. The New Black Poets 13. Dudley Randall's Poetic Dialectics and the Black Arts Movement 14. "After the Killing": Dudley Randall's Black Arts Poetry 15. Poetry as Industry 16. "Shape of the Invisible": The Rise and Fall of Broadside Press 17. "In the Mourning Time": The Return 18. A Poet Is Not A Jukebox 19. At Peace with the Muse 20. "The Ascent" Epilogue Appendix I. Translating Poetry Into Film Appendix II. Worksheets for "Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker" Notes Bibliography Index