A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets

by David Grundy and David Grundy

Book Overview

A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde.

Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this important but neglected group of poets. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350178381
• ISBN13: 9781350178380
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"