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A Brand New Beggar
Poetry. "A BRAND NEW BEGGAR is all about what and how it is to be open, in the field, to things that are all but imperceptibly piercing—the stuff that awakens us in passing, guiding our passage from overhearing to deep listening. A. L. Nielsen moves through 'bursts of land' in tonebursts, like George Lewis's solo trombone, which can't keep itself from laughing and crying. His seriality is complicated and full and beautiful; his train is different; he 'trains us to read that lost phrase,' which is poetry's currency, the wealth that derives from a poverty in spirit that, happily, we can learn to share, as the always brand new thing."—Fred Moten "A. L. Nielsen is at it again, lighting firew...
A.L. Nielsen
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Integral Music
An important study of African American contributions to contemporary American poetry. Aldon Nielsen's book Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997) was a ground-breaking work of scholarship that examined modern and postmodern developments in the work of African American poets since the Second World War and their contributions to both African American culture and American modernism. Integral Music extends the terms of the studies begun in Black Chant through a more in-depth look at the work of key writers and poets in the decades following the Second World War. While Nielsen examines anew such key figures as Amiri Baraka, he also provides the first extended studies of significant but often overlooked figures in African American poetry, such as Russell Atkins and Stephen Jonas. His essay on Bob Kaufman points toward the critical intersection of poetry and jazz in African American letters, as does his essay on performance poet Jayne Cortez. Nielsen's studies in this volume affirm the importance and centrality of African American poets to American intellectual life and international, modernist, and postmodernist poetry today.
Reading Race
Reading Race examines the work of twentieth-century white American poets from Carl Sandburg to Adrienne Rich, from Ezra Pound to Allen Ginsberg, revealing within their poetry and casual writings a body of literature that transmits racism, even as it sometimes speaks against it. Tracing the persistence of racial discourse, Aldon Nielsen argues that white Americans, throughout their history, have used a language of their own primacy, a language that treats blacks as an abstract other--an aggregate nonwhite--to be acted upon and determined by whites. White discourse drapes over blacks an intricate veil of images and understandings--assertions of inferiority; metaphors of exoticism; similes of a...
Stepping Razor
Poetry. "What Bogart was to crime flicks, Nielsen is to postmodern poetry--a conscience and a court jester by turns. Rueful comedy, at once spacey and rigorous, very funny. Read this book if it's the first thing you do."--David Bromige
You Didn't Hear This from Me
YOU DIDN'T HEAR THIS FROM ME is a new book of poetry by Aldon Nielsen, also the author of Heat Strings Evacuation Routes Stepping Razor VEXT Mixage Mantic Semantic A Brand New Beggar Tray
Black Chant
A study of postmodernism and African-American poets.
The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka
The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka examines the full length of Baraka’s discography as a poet recording with musicians as well as his contributions to jazz and R & B, beginning with his earliest studio recordings in 1965 and continuing to the last year of his life, 2014. This recorded history traces his evolution from the era of Beat poetry and “projective verse,” through the period of the Black Arts Movement and cultural nationalism, and on to his commitments to “third world Marxism,” which characterized the last decades of his life. The music enfolding Baraka’s recitations ranges from traditional African drumming, to doo wop, rhythm and blues, soul and the avant garde jazz that was his great love and the subject of so much of his writing, and includes both in-studio sessions and live concert performances. This body of work offers a rare opportunity to think about not only jazz/poetry, but the poet in the recording studio and the relations of text to score.
C. L. R. James
This study of C. L. R. James's writings is the first to look at them as literature and not as theory. This sustained analysis of his major published works places them in the context of his less well-known writings and offers an encompassing critique of one of the African diaspora's most significant thinkers and writers. Here the author of Black Jacobins, World Revolution, A History of Pan-African Revolt,, Beyond a Boundary, and the lyric novel Minty Alley is seen not only as among the great political philosophers but also as the literary artist that he remained, from his first writings in his native Trinidad through his underground years in America, to his final essays and speeches in London. The writings of James have inspired revolutionaries on three continents. They have altered the course of historiography, shown that way toward independent black political struggles, and established a base for much of today's study of culture. This study evaluates them as powerful works of literature.
