The Music - Everett Hoagland

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Auteur(s) : Everett Hoagland

Editeur : Lulu Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 31/10/2023

Nombre de pages : 130

Expédition : 204

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8

ISBN : 9798988165538

Résumé :

Poetry collection by Everett Hoagland, winner of the 2023 American Book Award. The collection spans 50 years of the poet's work. Everett Hoagland was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but has lived in New Bedford since 1973 where he was that city's first Poet Laureate, 1994-1998. He was a full-time educator for four decades and is Professor Emeritus at the nearby University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts where during his 30-year career there he created and sustained four different African American literature classes in addition to his poetry writing workshops.

The passion of Everett Hoagland's social and historical consciousness match the skill of his lyrical command and the brilliance of his imagination. -- Clarence Major

Everett Hoagland's ... is ... substantial poetry ... I commend the essential bravery of Hoagland's work, which connects the intimate and personal to the vastness of a historic and global outrage ... This is self-knowledge on an epic scale. All of us, regardless of our origins, would do well to come to grips with the long shadows of our own histories. -- Patrick Murfin

(Hoagland's) poetry is as much for the ear as for the eye, as much for the stage as for the page ... While tones, diction, geography and subject vary, there is in (his) language the ring of the Beats, Black Mountain music, consciousness streaming, and rhyming in rapper style, the breath of the spoken poem, a speech that reveals a vast compassion. -- Walter Hess, AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW

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Everett Hoagland was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but has lived in New Bedford since 1973 where he was that city's first Poet Laureate, 1994-1998. He was a full-time educator for four decades and is Professor Emeritus at the nearby University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts where during his 30-year career there he created and sustained four different African American literature classes in addition to his poetry writing workshops.His poetry has been published in periodicals such as THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, THE IOWA REVIEW, THE CRISIS, THE PROGRESSIVE, THE UUA WORLD, The CAPE COD REVIEW and has been excerpted in The Boston Globe and Providence Journal. Hoagland's work has also appeared in many anthologies since 1968, including The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Bum Rush The Page, The Best American Poetry, African American Literature (eds. Gilyard and Wardi), The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, Afro Asia, Resisting Arrest, S.O.S., Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, Liberation Poetry, What Saves Us and Black Fire -This Time. He received the Gwendolyn Brooks Award, two state-wide poetry competition awards for Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grants, two local Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grants for book publications, The Langston Hughes Society Award, The Boston NAACP and Suffolk University Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Initiative Award For A Lifetime Commitment To Black Liberation Through Art And Education, and The Stephen Henderson Award from The African American Literature And Culture Society. Most recently, he received the 2023 Stephen Henderson Award For Outstanding Achievement In Poetry from the American Literature Association's African American Literature and Culture Society. He is the recipient of the 2023 American Book Award.Hoagland's most recent books of poetry include Ocean Voices (third printing 2018), and his meditative collection The Ways: Poems of Affirmation, Remembrance, Reflection and Wonder (2022). He has given readings all over the USA, in Ghana, in Cuba and China. Much of his life's work and some memorabilia are archived in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst....