Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry

by Primeau, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780873387934
• ISBN10: 0873387937
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Child of the Depression	1	(20)
Reconstructing the Childhood Apprenticeship Years
Contrapuntal Imagination	21	(26)
From Coffeehouses to New York the Nine Million and Other Poems
Sight-Reading Dunbar	47	(17)
The Reluctant Partnership of Two Dayton Laureates
``Interrupted Rhythms''	64	(24)
From The Shit-Storm Poems to The Persistence of the Flesh
Empowering Audiences	88	(19)
A Vision of Community in My Mother's Voice and Final W
Celebrations	107	(22)
The Forms of Silence and the Seeds of New Projects
Reclaiming History	129	(21)
The Log of the Vigilante and The Last Days of William Short
Paul Laurence Dunbar and Herbert Woodward Martin in Their Own Voices	150	(16)
Martin the Dunbar Scholar
A Sound Outside of His Head	166	(24)
The Poet as Opera Librettist
Remembrances and New Directions	190	(18)
Galileo's Suns and A Matter of Honor
Conclusion	208	(7)
Appendix: A Brief Herbert Woodward Martin Chronology	215	(3)
Notes	218	(4)
Works Cited	222	(5)
A Select Bibliography of Works	227	(10)
Herbert W. Martin
Index	237