Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions 1,9781852247317

Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions 1

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ISBN13: 9781852247317
ISBN10: 1852247312
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Pub. Date: 2006-09-15
Publisher(s): Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Summary

Bloodaxe announces a new kind of anthology aimed at the general reader as well as the poetry lover. Each book covers leading contemporary poets in depth, with substantial selections from the whole range of each writer's poetry, as well as intriguing background material, including profiles, interviews, essays and commentary by the poets. The first book brings together four writers from different ethnic backgrounds whose poetry explores questions of cultural identity, race, gender, and exile as well as celebrating cultural difference, love, courage, and the human spirit.

Table of Contents

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
Introduction
7(2)
Interview with Elizabeth Alexander by NATASHA TRETHEWEY
9(3)
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: The Responsibilities of the Black Poet
12(3)
The Venus Hottentot
15(3)
House Party Sonnet: '66
18(1)
Boston Year
19(1)
Affirmative Action Blues (1993)
19(2)
After
21(1)
Apollo
22(1)
Race
23(1)
1968
23(1)
Gravitas
24(1)
Crash
24(1)
Peccant
25(1)
Feminist Poem Number One
26(1)
Little Slave Narrative #1: Master
27(1)
Smile
27(1)
Ars Poetic #92: Marcus Garvey on Elocution
28(1)
Ars Poetic #100: I Believe
29(1)
Translator
30(1)
MONIZA ALVI
Introduction
31(1)
MONIZA ALVI: The Least International Shop in the World
32(5)
I Was Raised in a Glove Compartment
37(1)
I Would Like to Be a Dot in a Painting by Mire,
37(1)
Throwing Out My Father's Dictionary
38(1)
Indian Cooking
38(1)
Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
39(2)
Arrival 1946
41(1)
The Country at My Shoulder
41(1)
The Sari
42(1)
And If
43(1)
The Wedding
44(1)
Houdini
45(1)
Carrying My Wife
46(1)
Man Impregnated
47(1)
The International Stores
47(1)
The Other Family
48(1)
Presents
49(1)
The Other Room
50(1)
How the World Split in Two
50(1)
How a Long Way Off Rolled Itself Up
51(1)
How the Children Were Born
51(1)
Half-and-Half
52(1)
Rural Scene
52(1)
IMTIAZ DHARKER
Introduction
53(2)
from Interview with Imtiaz Dharker by MENKA SHIVDASANI
55(3)
Imtiaz Dharker's Art: Interview by ALEXANDRA HAMLYN
58(1)
Blessing
59(1)
Purdah I
59(1)
Postcards from god 1
60(1)
Living Space
61(1)
Minority
62(1)
The Name of god
63(1)
Honour killing
64(1)
Front door
65(1)
They'll say, 'She must be from another country'
66(2)
This room
68(1)
Platform
68(1)
The terrorist at my table
69(1)
Campsie Fells
70(2)
Before I
72(1)
These are the times we live in I
72(2)
How to cut a pomegranate
74(1)
JACKIE KAY
Introduction
75(2)
Interview with Jackie Kay by LAURA SEVERIN
77(3)
JACKIE KAY writes
80(1)
from The Adoption Papers
81(2)
Dance of the Cherry Blossom
83(2)
Pounding Rain
85(1)
The Red Graveyard
86(1)
Blues
87(1)
Twelve Bar Bessie
88(1)
In my country
89(1)
Hottentot Venus
90(1)
Somebody Else
91(1)
Pride
91(2)
Things Fall Apart
93(1)
Late Love
94(1)
It's You and Me Baby All the Way to the End of the Line
95(1)
Old Tongue
95(1)
Life Mask
96

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