Great Regulars: (The relationship too between Black Mountain

and Black Arts has not been looked at closely enough, particularly in both movements' affinities for poetry as a speech act wherein the use of words overrides any attempt to lock down for them a kind of meaning.) By weaving African song into American English, these writers, Lorenzo [Thomas] argues, brought new perspectives to American poetry.

from Dale Smith: Bookslut: Marsupial Inquirer: Lorenzo Thomas, American

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