http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/12/descent-and-transcendence-by-meta-duewa-jones/ Poetry for Everyone. Wed, 23 May 2012 21:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/12/descent-and-transcendence-by-meta-duewa-jones/#comment-290 Reading Poets of Color: Privilege, Access : Barbara Jane Reyes Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:04:21 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=2501#comment-290 [...] excellent questions she asks are an extension of the questions Meta DuEwa Jones asks in her “Descent and Transcendence…” [...] [...] excellent questions she asks are an extension of the questions Meta DuEwa Jones asks in her “Descent and Transcendence…” [...]

]]> http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/12/descent-and-transcendence-by-meta-duewa-jones/#comment-289 Poets of Color Class: thinking about Bob Kaufman, and “Descent and Transcendence” : Barbara Jane Reyes Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:37:36 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=2501#comment-289 [...] Whew. After the last week of being distracted and downright exhausted with family stuff, I’m pleased that all is OK, and it’s nice to no longer be out of it, and to be getting back into the readings I’ve assigned for the Poets of Color class. This coming week, we are discussing (among other things) an essay and a poem by Audre Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury” and “Coal,” respectively; “West Coast Sounds – 1956″ and “To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room” by Bob Kaufman (you can read his West Coast Sounds chapbook PDF here); “I Know I’m Not Sufficiently Obscure” by Ray Durem; “right on: white america” by Sonia Sanchez (I’m interested in what she’s doing on the page; right now I’m not sure I know). Also (as I’ve previously mentioned here), Meta DuEwa Jones’s essay “Descent and Transcendence in African American Poetry: Identity, Experience, Form,” from Rattle. [...] [...] Whew. After the last week of being distracted and downright exhausted with family stuff, I’m pleased that all is OK, and it’s nice to no longer be out of it, and to be getting back into the readings I’ve assigned for the Poets of Color class. This coming week, we are discussing (among other things) an essay and a poem by Audre Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury” and “Coal,” respectively; “West Coast Sounds – 1956″ and “To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room” by Bob Kaufman (you can read his West Coast Sounds chapbook PDF here); “I Know I’m Not Sufficiently Obscure” by Ray Durem; “right on: white america” by Sonia Sanchez (I’m interested in what she’s doing on the page; right now I’m not sure I know). Also (as I’ve previously mentioned here), Meta DuEwa Jones’s essay “Descent and Transcendence in African American Poetry: Identity, Experience, Form,” from Rattle. [...]

]]> http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/12/descent-and-transcendence-by-meta-duewa-jones/#comment-288 Poets of Color Syllabus Status: Done! : Barbara Jane Reyes Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:22:30 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=2501#comment-288 [...] DuEwa Jones, “Descent and Transcendence in African American Poetry: Identity, Experience, Form” (2009). I feel like this essay is an elaboration of Hughes’s essay; Hughes envisioned [...] [...] DuEwa Jones, “Descent and Transcendence in African American Poetry: Identity, Experience, Form” (2009). I feel like this essay is an elaboration of Hughes’s essay; Hughes envisioned [...]

]]>