{"product_id":"furious-flower-seeding-the-future-of-african-american-poetry-9780810141544","title":"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry","description":"\u003ci\u003eFurious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation's first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, \u003ci\u003eFurious Flower\u003c\/i\u003e explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice by posing the question, What's next for Black poetic expression?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOANNE V. GABBIN\u003c\/b\u003e is the executive director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and a professor of English at James Madison University. She is the author of the critical biography \u003ci\u003eSterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e and a children's book, \u003ci\u003eI Bet She Called Me Sugar Plum\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of two previous Furious Flower anthologies, \u003ci\u003eThe Furious Flowering of African American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFurious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e. She also edited \u003ci\u003eMourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLAUREN K. ALLEYNE \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of two collections of poetry, \u003ci\u003eDifficult Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHoneyfish\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMs. Muse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterviewing the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Recent honors for her work include the 2018 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press, a 2017 Philip Freund Alumni Prize in Creative Writing (Cornell University), the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Prize, and a Picador Guest Professorship for Literature (University of Leipzig, 2015). She is the assistant director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and an associate professor of English at James Madison University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644524663058,"sku":"9780810141544","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1039ec6c-fde9-4044-85fc-9f5c5d80daf1.jpg?v=1737258753","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/furious-flower-seeding-the-future-of-african-american-poetry-9780810141544","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}