{"product_id":"minor-notes-volume-1-paperback","title":"Minor Notes, Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJesse McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoshua Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. \u003ci\u003eMinor Notes \u003c\/i\u003eis an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As \u003ci\u003eMinor Notes\u003c\/i\u003e clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps \u003ci\u003ebest\u003c\/i\u003e understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous. The poets featured in Volume 1 are George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld Grimké.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author: \u003ci\u003eThe Sobbing School\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin, 2016) a finalist for an NAACP Image Award, \u003ci\u003eProperty Once Myself \u003c\/i\u003e(Harvard, 2020) and \u003ci\u003eOwed\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin, 2020). He received the 2021 Whiting Award for Poetry and Nonfiction. His first work of narrative nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eSpoken Word: A Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2023. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesse McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English and African and African American studies at Harvard University. He is an editor at the \u003ci\u003ePoint\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. His critically acclaimed essay collection \u003ci\u003eWho Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?\u003c\/i\u003e (Liveright 2021) was a NYT Editor's Choice.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 7.7 x 5.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984100163885,"sku":"9780143137269","price":17.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/ZEZkR0trVGc5aEZUOXprTElWa00wZz09.webp?v=1776081946","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/minor-notes-volume-1-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}