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Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning African American poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and Meta DuEwa Jones.

Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews, and examines his achievements as a poet, critic and cultural commentator. She analyzes the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his adaptation of song forms, especially the blues.

The Mourning Katrina National Writing Project helped survivors deal with the emotional trauma of their experience through writing poetry. This book was born out of human suffering and owes its existence to the cooperation and generosity of spirit of more than three hundred people who participated in the Project. The poems, or individual configurations of language, in Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy recall for us certain associat...

Forty three poets contribute to this book which assembles a remarkable selection of works from the 1994 Furious Flower Conference of African-American writers. Authors range from such established voices as Gwendolyn Brooks and Michael Harper to a host of rising young authors, rendering a collective portrait of African-American poetry at the close of the twentieth century.