Wrestling with the Muse : : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press / / Melba Joyce Boyd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Boyd, Melba Joyce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 37 photos

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 B...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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: The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
• Appendix II: Worksheets for "Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker"
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Backmatter