Sumários
Outside Black Arts, “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 100-145
18 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky
We discussed Bob kaufman’s selection from “Jail Poems” and “Walking Parker Home,” Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison . . .,” Audre Lord’s “To My Daughter the Junkie on the Train,” and Ishmael Reed’s “ I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra.”
60s Outside Black Arts, “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 76-99
13 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky
We discussed Gerald Barrax’s “King: April 4, 1968” and viewed a video from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. We discussed Lucille Clifton’s “leda” poems and Jane Cortez’s “In the Morning” as poems that address female sexual experience and desire.
60s Black Arts, “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 50-74
11 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky
We discussed Larry Neal’s “Malcolm X—An Autobiography” and noted Malcolm’s importance to African American culture. We viewed a video of him speaking. We discussed Carolyn Rogers’ “Breaktrhrough” with Gwedolyn Brooks’ “Primer for Blacks” (available online) in terms of Baraka’s opposition between politically committed poetry and poetry focused on the self. We discussed Sonia Sanchez’s “blk / rhetoric” and watched a video of her reading,
60s Black Arts, “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 35-50
6 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky
We focused on Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art” and his critical review in “Poetry” of the “Angles of Ascent” anthology assigned for this class. We discussed the opposition Baraka posits between politically engaged poetry and poetry that he characterizes as self-indulgent and aesthetic. This opposition will figure repeatedly in our attention to the poems that follow in the course. We also briefly attended to his poem, “AM/TRAK.”
Precursors in “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 4-27
4 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky
We discussed together Gwendolyn Brooks’ poems “The Sundays of Satin Legs Smith” and “Boy Breaking Glass” attending to the speaker’s tone toward the subjects of the poems. We also discussed Robert Hayden’s “Elegies for Paradise Valley.” We added Brook’s Chicago and Hayden’s Detroit to Hughes’s New York as “Chocolate Cities,” Northern US cities with significant Black neighborhoods..