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David Grundy is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944—Present (Oxford University Press, 2024) and coeditor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023). He co-runs the poetry small press Materials/Materialien.

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New books from Materials press

Announcing three new titles from Materials: Faux Ice by James Goodwin, Short Leash Kept On by Candace Hill, and Kruk Book: An Anthology for Frances Kruk . All three can be purchased from the Materials website.

A long-awaited reprint of Askia M. Toure’s Songhai is also available for pre-order and will be printed in early 2023. Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 17, 2023 08:41 • Tags: materials, poetry

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	The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968–69 by A.B. Spellman (Editor), Larry Neal (Editor), Amiri Baraka (Editor) 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Calvin C. Hernton, Ishmael Reed (Foreword), David Grundy (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets by David Grundy (Goodreads Author), Daniel Katz (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A True Account by David Grundy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Essays from 'Present Continuous' it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Problem, The Questions, The Poem 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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