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DAZE OF BLUESVILLE BOYZ. J.P. Bailey's Poems From The Novel "Crimes In Bluesville"(1st Edition)
von Mona Lisa Saloy
Paperback, 118 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1995 von Black Bayou Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-887160-01-8, ISBN: 1-887160-01-9

"From Black talk to verse forms, Mona Lisa Saloy never loses sight of the African-American cultural roots of her community. She makes music in verse."

Red Beans And Ricely Yours
Poems (New Odyssey Series)
von Mona Lisa Saloy
Hardcover, 106 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Truman State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-931112-53-6, ISBN: 1-931112-53-3

"Features narrative poems telling the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and the magic in the culture. Presenting local history and colour, these poems have a Black sensibility. From Black talk to verse forms, this work focuses on the African American cultural roots of the community."

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New Orleans Poems (New Odyssey)
von Mona Lisa Saloy
Paperback, 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Truman State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61248-100-5, ISBN: 1-61248-100-0

"In this celebration of life in death, Mona Lisa Saloy captures the solemn grief, ongoing struggle, and joyous processions of New Orleans after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. She knows the music of the neighborhood spoken and sung in affirmation of what is genuine and hopeful, as well as the despair of destruction that nature and politics heaped upon The Crescent City. Saloy's details of down-home activities and use of local ..."

Red Beans And Ricely Yours(1st Edition)
Poems (Winner, T.S. Eliot Prize, 2005) (New Odyssey Series) (New Odyssey (Paperback))
von Mona Lisa Saloy
Paperback, 104 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Truman State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-931112-54-3, ISBN: 1-931112-54-1

"These narrative poems tell the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and the rare magic in the culture. Vibrant with local history and colour, these poems have a Black sensibility that reaches beyond boundaries, with folk sayings turned into polished verse. From Black talk to verse forms, Mona Lisa Saloy never loses sight of the African American cultural roots of her community. She makes music in verse."

Black Creole Chronicles
von Saloy, Mona Lisa
Paperback, 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2023 von University Of New Orleans Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60801-249-7, ISBN: 1-60801-249-2

"Saloy's new poems address ancestral connections to contemporary life, traditions celebrated, New Orleans Black life today, Louisiana Black life today, enduring and surviving hurricanes, romance, #BlackLivesMatter, #wematter, as well as ..."

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New Orleans Poems
von Saloy, Mona Lisa
Paperback, 130 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Black Bayou Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-887160-02-5, ISBN: 1-887160-02-7

"In this celebration of life in death, Mona Lisa Saloy captures the solemn grief, ongoing struggle, and joyous processions of New Orleans after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina."

Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
von Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."

Between laughter and tears
Black Mona Lisa poems
von Mona Lisa Saloy, Michael D'orso
26 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1995 von Black Bayou Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-887160-00-1, ISBN: 1-887160-00-0

"Mona Lisa Saloy is the kind of poet, once you hear her read, you will never forget. On the west coast, reviewer Joyce Jenkins, editor of Poetry Flash, wrote that "Mona Lisa, named after the Nat King Cole song, has got heart, a voice, and some fine, jazzy poems." Mona Lisa Saloy is currently an Assistant Professor of English, teaching writing and literature at Dillard University in New Orleans."

Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
von Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."

The American Century(1st Edition)
Art and Culture, 1950-2000
von Lisa Phillips, Maxwell L. Anderson, Barbara Haskell, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Berger, Rebecca Solnit, Steven Watson, Maria Damon, Edward Sanders, John G. Hanhardt, Glenn O'brien, Mona Lisa Saloy
Hardcover, 398 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04815-5, ISBN: 0-393-04815-2

"This lively compendium is the catalog for the second half of the Whitney Museum of American Art's nine-month, two-part exhibition on American culture of the last 100 years. The author, Lisa Phillips, is now director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, but she spent 20 years at the Whitney overseeing many of its famous (or infamous) biennials and producing a number of exhibitions about American culture in fields beyond the ..."

Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965(1st Edition)
von Allen S. Ginsberg, Lisa. Beat -. Phillips, Maurice Berger, Maria Damon, John G. Hanhardt, Glenn O'brien, Mona Lisa Saloy, Walker Art Center, Edward Sanders, Rebecca Solnit, Steven Watson, Ray Carney
Hardcover, 279 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1996 von Whitney Museum Of American Art
ISBN-13: 978-2-08-013613-8, ISBN: 2-08-013613-5

"Now that Francis Ford Coppola is making a film of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the beats--Kerouac, Ginsberg, Whalen, Cassady, and others, some gone but not forgotten--are due for another in a series of periodic rediscoveries by the mainstream media. This heavily illustrated book does the work of several tomes. It analyzes beat culture from a historical viewpoint, showing its growth in the Cold War as an expression of alienation on ..."

The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. 4(1st Edition)
Louisiana (Volume 4)
von William Wright, Paul Ruffin, Stephen Leroy Gardner
Paperback, 272 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Texas Review Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-77-9, ISBN: 1-933896-77-9

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