Summoning Our Saints
John Wharton Lowe (Redaktør) Keith Cartwright (Innledning) Doris Davenport (Innledning) Thadious Davis (Innledning) Dolores Flores-Silva (Innledning) John Wharton Lowe (Innledning) Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Innledning) Malin Pereira (Innledning) Hermine Pinson (Innledning) Andrea Benton Rushing (Innledning) Daniel Cross Turner (Innledning) Tracy Watts (Innledning)
«What a delightful treat! This collection of eleven essays from some of the most important critics working in African American literary and cultural studies enters into lively conversation with the poetry and prose of Brenda Marie Osbey. In essays that alternately explore Osbey’s technical mastery, innovative approaches to line, stanza, and phrase, as well as her gift for interweaving history and verse into a hybridized musical journey through time and space, we are ushered into Osbey’s poetic world as it stages a refusal to the lingering effects of European colonialism and American slavery, where spirits not only walk among us, but order our steps. Spanning the length and breadth of Osbey’s career, these essays confirm that her unique melding of spirituality and history, her explication of the spatial relations governing life on the Gulf Coast, belong in the foreground of American poetry and poetics.»
Herman Beavers, Professor of English and African American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function during the dark days after Hurricane Katrina, Osbey has summoned up a magical, beguiling, sometimes chilling and appalling portrait of the myriad chapters of New Orleans, Southern, and hemispheric history. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781498581592
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«What a delightful treat! This collection of eleven essays from some of the most important critics working in African American literary and cultural studies enters into lively conversation with the poetry and prose of Brenda Marie Osbey. In essays that alternately explore Osbey’s technical mastery, innovative approaches to line, stanza, and phrase, as well as her gift for interweaving history and verse into a hybridized musical journey through time and space, we are ushered into Osbey’s poetic world as it stages a refusal to the lingering effects of European colonialism and American slavery, where spirits not only walk among us, but order our steps. Spanning the length and breadth of Osbey’s career, these essays confirm that her unique melding of spirituality and history, her explication of the spatial relations governing life on the Gulf Coast, belong in the foreground of American poetry and poetics.»
Herman Beavers, Professor of English and African American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
«John Lowe has done the deft work of introducing new readers to Brenda Marie Osbey’s poetry and clarifying it to others all at once. Indeed, Lowe’s work is a summoning in its own right. He calls forth the best of our writers and critics to reveal the beauty of one of our most revered poets.»
Dana Williams, Howard University
«As Lowe makes clear in his comprehensive and informative introduction, Brenda Marie Osbey’s poetry and essays are rooted in West African, Caribbean, and French cultural traditions, practices, and beliefs that intersect in New Orleans. To read her poetry is to undergo a pleasurable possession that allows readers to commune with the dead and to rethink how history was made. This collection stands as a supplement to Osbey’s work. In addition to an introduction that is both biographical and analytical, Lowe is joined by a cadre of poets and scholars whose essays parse out the complex nuances and rich contours of Osbey’s poetry.»
Tara T. Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro