Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and C
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π Library
π University of Michigan Press
π English
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Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets On Poetry)
β Scribed by Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 239
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Condition Red collects writing by one of Americaβs most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that βwe writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we conjure and embrace through language, whether in essays, novels, plays, poems, or songs.β Also included are essays and interviews on:Β coming home to Bogalusa, Louisiana; the influence of religion on black poetry; language and eroticism; the visual artist Floyd Tunson; and the poets Robert Hayden, Walt Whitman, Clarence Major, and Etheridge Knight. The book features an extended introduction by editor Radiclani Clytus, who concludes that βCondition Red issues readers much more than a critical warning; it reminds us that our innate cultural capacity for language is, and always has been, the sum total of that which defines us.β
β¦ Table of Contents
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Contents
Language in Our Blood
I. Essays
Red
Erasure
An Ode to Raccoon
Sorrow Songs and Flying Away: Religious Influence on Black Poetry
A Needful Thing
Crossroads
A Supreme Signifier: Etheridge Knight
The Devilβs Secretary
The Blue Machinery of Summer
The Blood Work of Language
Son of Pop: Floyd D. Tunsonβs Neo- blues
Conundrum
Clarence Majorβs Cosmopolitan Vision
Dark Waters
The Method of Ai
II. Interviews
Collaboration and the Wishbone
Three Shades of Past
Excursions
Getting a Shape
The Wolf/Interview
Celebration and Confrontation: Walt Whitman
III. Commentaries
Notes from a Lost Notebook
You Made Me
More Than a State of Mind
Eros, Words
A Letter to Poetry
Small Illuminations
How Poetry Helps People to Live Their Lives
Picking a Lock to the Mind- Jail in the City of Asylum
A Note from The Best American Erotic Poems
The Mission of American Poets and Writers Visiting the 2008 Kolkata Book Fair
Rewriting Dante
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