Description: Pereira's collection of interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander.
Review Quotes:
The eight writers interviewed by Malin Pereira are key poets whose work is crucial in understanding how American poetry is one of the most dynamic literatures in the world. Each excellent interview gives fresh insight into the poet's work and examines how this active generation of writers has gone beyond a specific black aesthetic to address racism and its politics in a universal manner.
--Bloomsbury Review