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Wrestling with the Muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press / Melba Joyce Boyd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) : 37 photosContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231130264
  • 9780231503648
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3568.A49 Z58 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Wrestling with the Muse -- 1. Beginnings and Endings -- 2. The Fertile Black Bottom of Paradise Valley -- 3. Poets of Black Bottom: Dudley Randall Meets Robert Hayden -- 4. War at Home and Abroad -- 5. The Return: Poetry and Prophecy -- 6. Sojourn and Return -- 7. The Emergence of the Second Renaissance in Detroit -- 8. "Ballad of Birmingham": The Founding of Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement -- 9. "Ya Vas Lyubil": Alexander Pushkin, Dudley Randall, and the Black Russian Connection -- 10. Cultural Wars and Civil Wars -- 11. "Prophets for a New Day": Diversity and Heritage -- 12. The New Black Poets -- 13. Dudley Randall's Poetic Dialectics and the Black Arts Movement -- 14. "After the Killing": Dudley Randall's Black Arts Poetry -- 15. Poetry as Industry -- 16. "Shape of the Invisible": The Rise and Fall of Broadside Press -- 17. "In the Mourning Time": The Return -- 18. A Poet Is Not a Jukebox -- 19. At Peace with the Muse -- 20. "The Ascent" -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Translating Poetry into Film: The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press -- Appendix II: Worksheets for "Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: And as I groped in darkness and felt the pain of millions,gradually, like day driving night across the continent,I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.-Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914-2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in Pink," about the assassination of President Kennedy. When both were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965, Randall published them as broadsides. Thus was born the Broadside Press, whose popular chapbooks opened the canon of American literature to the works of African American writers. Dudley Randall, one of the great success stories of American small-press history, was also poet laureate of Detroit, a civil-rights activist, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Melba Joyce Boyd was an editor at Broadside, was Randall's friend and colleague for twenty-eight years, and became his authorized biographer. Her book is an account of the interconnections between urban and labor politics in Detroit and the broader struggles of black America before and during the Civil Rights era. But also, through Randall's poetry and sixteen years of interviews, the narrative is a multipart dialogue between poets, Randall, the author, and the history of American letters itself, and it affords unique insights into the life and work of this crucial figure.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Wrestling with the Muse -- 1. Beginnings and Endings -- 2. The Fertile Black Bottom of Paradise Valley -- 3. Poets of Black Bottom: Dudley Randall Meets Robert Hayden -- 4. War at Home and Abroad -- 5. The Return: Poetry and Prophecy -- 6. Sojourn and Return -- 7. The Emergence of the Second Renaissance in Detroit -- 8. "Ballad of Birmingham": The Founding of Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement -- 9. "Ya Vas Lyubil": Alexander Pushkin, Dudley Randall, and the Black Russian Connection -- 10. Cultural Wars and Civil Wars -- 11. "Prophets for a New Day": Diversity and Heritage -- 12. The New Black Poets -- 13. Dudley Randall's Poetic Dialectics and the Black Arts Movement -- 14. "After the Killing": Dudley Randall's Black Arts Poetry -- 15. Poetry as Industry -- 16. "Shape of the Invisible": The Rise and Fall of Broadside Press -- 17. "In the Mourning Time": The Return -- 18. A Poet Is Not a Jukebox -- 19. At Peace with the Muse -- 20. "The Ascent" -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Translating Poetry into Film: The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press -- Appendix II: Worksheets for "Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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And as I groped in darkness and felt the pain of millions,gradually, like day driving night across the continent,I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.-Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914-2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in Pink," about the assassination of President Kennedy. When both were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965, Randall published them as broadsides. Thus was born the Broadside Press, whose popular chapbooks opened the canon of American literature to the works of African American writers. Dudley Randall, one of the great success stories of American small-press history, was also poet laureate of Detroit, a civil-rights activist, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Melba Joyce Boyd was an editor at Broadside, was Randall's friend and colleague for twenty-eight years, and became his authorized biographer. Her book is an account of the interconnections between urban and labor politics in Detroit and the broader struggles of black America before and during the Civil Rights era. But also, through Randall's poetry and sixteen years of interviews, the narrative is a multipart dialogue between poets, Randall, the author, and the history of American letters itself, and it affords unique insights into the life and work of this crucial figure.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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