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The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology)
Edited by Nikky Finney

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Publication Date: Mar 25, 2007
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Format: Paperback, 432 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780820329260
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Parent Company: University of Georgia

Paperback Description:

The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region’s history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to—the South.
Voices new to the scene appear in The Ringing Ear alongside some of the leading names in American literature today, including Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Harryette Mullen, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, and Al Young. The southern worlds opened up by these poets are echoed in how their poems are grouped, under headings like "Music, Food, and Work: Heeding the Lamentation and Roar of Things Made by Hand," or "Religion and Nature: The Lord Looks Out for Babies and Fools," or "Love, Flesh, and Family: The Hush and Holler Portraits."
"Not all of us on these pages have come to or from the South by the same dirt road," says anthology editor Nikky Finney. "We have not chosen our dark olive words from the same patch of earth. Some have come by way of birth and others have followed street musicians and urban corner preachers, dream and myth, to stand before its pine and iron gates."



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