This book celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of Brenda Marie Osbey. Featuring chapters by distinguished critics of African American poetry and prose, it places particular emphasis on the role of New Orleans, sexuality, gender, madness, death, and remembrance in her oeuvre, and on Osbey's eloquent revision of hemispheric history.
This book celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of Brenda Marie Osbey. Featuring chapters by distinguished critics of African American poetry and prose, it places particular emphasis on the role of New Orleans, sexuality, gender, madness, death, and remembrance in her oeuvre, and on Osbey's eloquent revision of hemispheric history.
John Wharton Lowe is Barbara Methvin distinguished professor of English and Latin American and Caribbean studies at the University of Georgia.
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Introduction. Mapping a Starry Poetics: The Achievement of Brenda Marie Osbey John Wharton Lowe Chapter 1. The Origins of Osbey's Poetics: The Achievement of Ceremony for Minneconjoux and In These Houses John Wharton Lowe Chapter 2. "And I can see to it you stay dead / on a daily basis": Brenda Marie Osbey's Culturally Based Poetics (A poet's perspective) Doris Davenport Chapter 3. Desperate Measures Aldon Lynn Nielsen Chapter 4. Wild and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey Andrea Benton Rushing Chapter 5. Saints of a Darker Hue in Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints Reggie Scott Young Chapter 6. Haunted Memories: Disruptive Ghosts in the Poems of Brenda Marie Osbey Tracy Watts Chapter 7. Imagining History: Brenda Marie Osbey and the Poetics of Imagination Thadious Davis Chapter 8. Crossing the Gulf: Ecopoetic Revisions of the Coast in Brenda Marie Osbey, Natasha Trethewey, and Yusef Komunyakaa Daniel Cross Turner Chapter 9. Feeding the Gulf Dead: An Ofrenda of Response to Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints & All Souls Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright Chapter 10. The Roots and Routes of Brenda Marie Osbey's Black Internationalism Malin Pereira Chapter 11. Introduction to 1967: On the Semicenternary of the Desegregation of the College of William and Mary Hermine Pinson Appendix: Chronology of the Life and Career of Brenda Marie Osbey About the Editor About the Contributors
Introduction. Mapping a Starry Poetics: The Achievement of Brenda Marie Osbey John Wharton Lowe Chapter 1. The Origins of Osbey's Poetics: The Achievement of Ceremony for Minneconjoux and In These Houses John Wharton Lowe Chapter 2. "And I can see to it you stay dead / on a daily basis": Brenda Marie Osbey's Culturally Based Poetics (A poet's perspective) Doris Davenport Chapter 3. Desperate Measures Aldon Lynn Nielsen Chapter 4. Wild and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey Andrea Benton Rushing Chapter 5. Saints of a Darker Hue in Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints Reggie Scott Young Chapter 6. Haunted Memories: Disruptive Ghosts in the Poems of Brenda Marie Osbey Tracy Watts Chapter 7. Imagining History: Brenda Marie Osbey and the Poetics of Imagination Thadious Davis Chapter 8. Crossing the Gulf: Ecopoetic Revisions of the Coast in Brenda Marie Osbey, Natasha Trethewey, and Yusef Komunyakaa Daniel Cross Turner Chapter 9. Feeding the Gulf Dead: An Ofrenda of Response to Brenda Marie Osbey's All Saints & All Souls Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright Chapter 10. The Roots and Routes of Brenda Marie Osbey's Black Internationalism Malin Pereira Chapter 11. Introduction to 1967: On the Semicenternary of the Desegregation of the College of William and Mary Hermine Pinson Appendix: Chronology of the Life and Career of Brenda Marie Osbey About the Editor About the Contributors
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