Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade

ISBN 10: 0472069241 / ISBN 13: 9780472069248

Published by University of Michigan Press, 2006

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Seller Inventory # BSM.14OT1

Synopsis:

Cave Canem has for the past ten years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Founded in 1996 by prizewinning poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Cave Canem began as a weeklong summer workshop/retreat and has now expanded to include regional workshops, poetry readings, a series of public conversations between major poets and emerging younger poets, and an annual first-book prize. To mark the first decade of this pathbreaking project, Gathering Ground presents more than one hundred poems by Cave Canem participants and faculty. It embraces an impressive and eclectic gathering of forms, including sonnets, a bop (a new form created by a Cave Canem faculty member), blues, sestinas, prose poems, centos, free verse, and more. The roster of distinguished contributors includes Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marilyn Nelson, Sonya Sanchez, Al Young, and many others. For newcomers and aficionados alike, Gathering Ground assembles in one place the most innovative voices in contemporary African American poetry and boldly attests to the important position it holds in verse-making today. Toi Derricotte is author of the memoir The Black Notebooks and of four books of poetry: Tender, Captivity, Natural Birth, and The Empress of the Death House. She is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Cornelius Eady is the author of Brutal Imagination, Autobiography of a Jukebox, You Don't Miss Your Water, The Gathering of My Name, and Victims of the Latest Dance Craze. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

About the Author:

Toi Derricotte is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and co-founder of the Cave Canem Foundation. She is author of the memoir The Black Notebooks, and of four books of poetry: Tender, Captivity, Natural Birth, and The Empress of the Death House..

Cornelius Eady is co-founder of the Cave Canem Foundation. He is the author of Brutal Imagination, Autobiography of a Jukebox, You Don't Miss Your Water, The Gathering of My Name, and Victims of the Dance Craze.

Camille T. Dungy is Associate Professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. She is author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave ...
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good