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Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95: Directed by John Hodges. With Samuel W. Allen, Alvin Aubert, Amiri Baraka, Gerald Barrax.
- John Hodges
- Samuel W. Allen, Alvin Aubert, Amiri Baraka
Now all of these multiple volume videos – nearly fourteen hours of once-in-a-lifetime encounters - are brought together for the first time in Furious Flower – The Complete Edition. This essential collection represents more than 50 years of artistic movement covering the post World War II era to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s as well as contemporary hip hop spoken word.
This series preserves for students, faculty and the general public a landmark conference Furious Flower: A Revolution in African American Poetry 1960-95 celebrating the continuity of Black verse from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Arts Movement of the '60s to the hip-hop influenced poetry of today. The event was dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks, an inspiration to Black poets for over ...
A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 "The time cracks into furious flower Lifts its face all unashamed And sways in wicked grace." - Gwendolyn Brooks, The Second Sermon on the Warpland. Furious Flower is nothing less than a video anthology of African American verse during the last half of the 20th century. This invaluable ...
Summary: A video anthology of African American poetry from the last half of the 20th century. Black verse from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Arts Movement beginning in the 1960s is discussed and 25 notable poets are introduced and profiled. Young poets of the nineties read from their work as well
The first Furious Flower Poetry Conference, deemed "historic" by the Washington Post, was the first gathering of its kind, drawing the giants of African Amer...
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- Furious Flower
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry 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 ...
