Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetryis an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets,including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themedessays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwaJones, and Evie Shockley.

The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nations firstacademic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors JoanneV. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voicesin Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic ofvoices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the workof twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening andpowerfully enlivening,Furious Flowerexplores and celebrates the idea of the Blackpoetic voice by posing the question, Whats next for Black poetic expression?

• Paperback:480 pages
• Publisher:Triquarterly; Reprint edition (December 16, 2019)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:081014154X
• ISBN-13:9780810141544
• Product Dimensions:6 x 1.8 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight:1.3 pounds