Every Goodbye Ain't Gone by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Lauri Ramey - 9780817352790

Every Goodbye Ain't GoneAn Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans\nAuthor(s): Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Lauri Ramey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817352790, 978-0817352790\nSynopsis\nJust prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1960s, a far-reaching revolution in aesthetics and prosody by black poets ensued, some working independently and others in organized groups. Little of this new work was reflected in the anthologies and syllabi of college English courses of the period. Even during the 1970s, when African American literature began to receive substantial critical attention, the work of many experimental black poets continued to be neglected. \""\""Every Goodbye Ain't Gone\""\"" presents the groundbreaking work of many of these poets who carried on the innovative legacies of Melvin Tolson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden. Whereas poetry b.