Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aldon Lynn Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aldon Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Choruses for Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron often built his lyrics from popular rhetoric and books he was reading. Also, descriptions of his work as a professor at Federal City College
A Note on Citizen Brown: Sterling A. Brown Writes to the Press
Sterling Brown was an engaged citizen of his nation and of the District of Columbia, as revealed in his published and unpublished communications with news organizations. In telegrams to editors, and letters to major news magazines responding to southern agrarians, we see the public, political side of citizen Brown. This article on Sterling A. Brown is prefaced by a brief two-part commentary on his stature as a poet and scholar and his collection …
Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere: Harmolodic Choruses for Jayne Cortez
Surrealism was from its outset deeply engaged with the Africanesque, if much less engaged with Africa itself. Much as Roussell had written at length of Africa without disembarking there, surrealists, to paraphrase Jayne Cortez, wanted the culture without the people. Minotaure published Griaule, jazz found its way into the poetics, and despite bearing scant relation to actual Black peoples, early surrealist writings profoundly altered Western mode…
Dean Franco. The Border and the Line: Race, Literature and Los Angeles
Neighborhoods and their boundaries, to paraphrase the old song, are a sometimes thing. The section of Washington, DC, I knew growing up as the “West End” has now been rechristened “Georgetown Extended” by real estate interests, much to the confusion of visitors to the West End Cinema. The ghetto neighborhood where I lived in my student days has now been similarly awarded the name of “Capitol Hill Extended,” and is listed by Forbes as one of the n…
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era. By Joseph Vogel. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. xii, 182 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $22.95.) Aldon Lynn Nielsen Aldon Lynn Nielsen Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 4, March 2020, Page 1144…
Nation Times
Hart Crane's Poetry Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics
Book Review| December 01 2015 Hart Crane's Poetry Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics Hart Crane's Poetry. By Irwin, John T.. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2011. xiv, 424 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $34.95.Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. By Reed, Brian M.. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 2013. xix, 222 pp.$45.00. Aldon Nielsen Aldon Nielsen Search for other works by this author on: This …
Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy
Dennis Looney. Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy. The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. xiv + 280 pp. index. bibl. $30. ISBN: 978–0–268–03386–6. - Volume 64 Issue 4
Now That We Know
Now That We Know ... Aldon Lynn Nielsen Aldon Lynn Nielsen Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 19–35, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0112 Published: 01 June 2010
Face to Face with the Blues
Face to Face with the Blues Aldon Lynn Nielsen (bio) There is nothing surprising in the ambiguities attendant upon that most familiar of multifaceted words, face. It can be an action, as when we face facts, face up to a looming threat, or, in a sublime irony for music lovers, when we are forced finally to face the music. More often, it falls into another tense. We have a face off, we have a face down, we demand face time, we have, indeed, a face-…
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Book Review| January 01 2008 Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du BoisGillman, Susan; Weinbaum, Alys Eve Aldon Nielsen Aldon Nielsen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (4): 527–530. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659691 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Aldon Niels…
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
Product Description: Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1960s, a far-reaching revolution in aesthetics and prosody by black poets ensued, some working independently and others in organized groups. Little of this new work was reflected in the anthologies and syllabi of college English courses of the period. Even during the 1970s, when African American literature began to receive substantial critical atte…
Fugitive Fictions
Somebody Blew off Baraka
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512305?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Reading Race in American Poetry: An Area of Act
Situated at the intersection of poetry, race, and politics, this collection exposes the many and various ways race informs American poetry. Contributors examine the historical influence of race on critical reception and the evolution of racial definitions and archetypes. They take a fresh look at influential and overlooked figures who have shaped poetic dialogue about race, such as William S. Braithwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Duncan, James We…
A Hard Rain: Looking to Bob Kaufman
In the world of Bob Kaufman's poetics, Federico García Lorca and Crispus Attucks stand together in "The Ancient Rain." Kaufman asserts a kinship with Attucks, writing "Crispus Attucks is my son, my father, my brother, I am Black" (Ancient 80). Kaufman here fathers his own father. Further, he envisions an afterworld where "The Negroes have gone home with Lorca" (79). The music of "The Ancient Rain" is "purely American, not European" (77), and yet …
Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism
already negligible levels, I more than ever wish to thank those who have assisted me as I have worked on this book
N + 1: Before-the-Fact Reading in Nathaniel Mackey's Postcontemporary Music
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000
"Will Alexander's "Transmundane Specific
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1999
The contemporary long poem: Feminist intersections and experiments
As we have seen in the preceding essays, contemporary women poets working in expansive forms have both claimed and challenged the cultural authority of the long poem. They have done so using diverse aesthetic modes, ranging from historically focused collage poems to formally intricate lyric sequences to massive works of epic breadth and comprehensiveness. Despite these different aesthetic choices, feminist poets writing in extended forms, have em…
Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism
already negligible levels, I more than ever wish to thank those who have assisted me as I have worked on this book
Writing between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality
A volume that advances a theory of the intertextual nature of race in America; examines authors ranging from Amiri Baraka, Charles Olson, Robert Hayden, Paule Marshall to Willa Cather and Sherley Anne WIlliams
Hieroglyphics of Space: Wilson Harris in The Waiting Room
“Hieroglyphics of Space”Wilson Harris in The Waiting Room Aldon L. Nielsen (bio) When providing an introduction for Guyanese readers of Wilson Harris’s privately printed volume of poetry in 1954, A.J. Seymour noted an element of Harris’s approach to writing which was only to become more pronounced in the years that followed the publication of Eternity to Season. “To an unusual degree,” it seemed to Seymour and to many readers who followed afterwa…
Poetry in Black and White
Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism
already negligible levels, I more than ever wish to thank those who have assisted me as I have worked on this book
Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Book Review| January 01 2008 Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du BoisGillman, Susan; Weinbaum, Alys Eve Aldon Nielsen Aldon Nielsen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (4): 527–530. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659691 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Aldon Niels…
Somebody Blew off Baraka
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512305?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
"Will Alexander's "Transmundane Specific
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1999
Melvin B. Tolson and the Deterritorialization of Modernism
Melvin B. Tolson and the Deterritorialization of Modernism
Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century
Poetry in Black and White
Hieroglyphics of Space: Wilson Harris in The Waiting Room
“Hieroglyphics of Space”Wilson Harris in The Waiting Room Aldon L. Nielsen (bio) When providing an introduction for Guyanese readers of Wilson Harris’s privately printed volume of poetry in 1954, A.J. Seymour noted an element of Harris’s approach to writing which was only to become more pronounced in the years that followed the publication of Eternity to Season. “To an unusual degree,” it seemed to Seymour and to many readers who followed afterwa…
Writing between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality
A volume that advances a theory of the intertextual nature of race in America; examines authors ranging from Amiri Baraka, Charles Olson, Robert Hayden, Paule Marshall to Willa Cather and Sherley Anne WIlliams
The contemporary long poem: Feminist intersections and experiments
As we have seen in the preceding essays, contemporary women poets working in expansive forms have both claimed and challenged the cultural authority of the long poem. They have done so using diverse aesthetic modes, ranging from historically focused collage poems to formally intricate lyric sequences to massive works of epic breadth and comprehensiveness. Despite these different aesthetic choices, feminist poets writing in extended forms, have em…
Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism
already negligible levels, I more than ever wish to thank those who have assisted me as I have worked on this book
"Will Alexander's "Transmundane Specific
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1999
Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism
already negligible levels, I more than ever wish to thank those who have assisted me as I have worked on this book
N + 1: Before-the-Fact Reading in Nathaniel Mackey's Postcontemporary Music
Callaloo - Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000
Reading Race in American Poetry: An Area of Act
Situated at the intersection of poetry, race, and politics, this collection exposes the many and various ways race informs American poetry. Contributors examine the historical influence of race on critical reception and the evolution of racial definitions and archetypes. They take a fresh look at influential and overlooked figures who have shaped poetic dialogue about race, such as William S. Braithwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Duncan, James We…
A Hard Rain: Looking to Bob Kaufman
In the world of Bob Kaufman's poetics, Federico García Lorca and Crispus Attucks stand together in "The Ancient Rain." Kaufman asserts a kinship with Attucks, writing "Crispus Attucks is my son, my father, my brother, I am Black" (Ancient 80). Kaufman here fathers his own father. Further, he envisions an afterworld where "The Negroes have gone home with Lorca" (79). The music of "The Ancient Rain" is "purely American, not European" (77), and yet …
Fugitive Fictions
Somebody Blew off Baraka
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512305?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
Product Description: Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1960s, a far-reaching revolution in aesthetics and prosody by black poets ensued, some working independently and others in organized groups. Little of this new work was reflected in the anthologies and syllabi of college English courses of the period. Even during the 1970s, when African American literature began to receive substantial critical atte…
Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Book Review| January 01 2008 Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du BoisGillman, Susan; Weinbaum, Alys Eve Aldon Nielsen Aldon Nielsen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (4): 527–530. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659691 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Aldon Niels…
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
Now That We Know
Now That We Know ... Aldon Lynn Nielsen Aldon Lynn Nielsen Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 19–35, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0112 Published: 01 June 2010
Face to Face with the Blues
Face to Face with the Blues Aldon Lynn Nielsen (bio) There is nothing surprising in the ambiguities attendant upon that most familiar of multifaceted words, face. It can be an action, as when we face facts, face up to a looming threat, or, in a sublime irony for music lovers, when we are forced finally to face the music. More often, it falls into another tense. We have a face off, we have a face down, we demand face time, we have, indeed, a face-…
Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy
Dennis Looney. Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy. The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. xiv + 280 pp. index. bibl. $30. ISBN: 978–0–268–03386–6. - Volume 64 Issue 4
Hart Crane's Poetry Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics
Book Review| December 01 2015 Hart Crane's Poetry Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics Hart Crane's Poetry. By Irwin, John T.. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2011. xiv, 424 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $34.95.Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. By Reed, Brian M.. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 2013. xix, 222 pp.$45.00. Aldon Nielsen Aldon Nielsen Search for other works by this author on: This …
Nation Times
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era. By Joseph Vogel. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. xii, 182 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $22.95.) Aldon Lynn Nielsen Aldon Lynn Nielsen Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 4, March 2020, Page 1144…
Dean Franco. The Border and the Line: Race, Literature and Los Angeles
Neighborhoods and their boundaries, to paraphrase the old song, are a sometimes thing. The section of Washington, DC, I knew growing up as the “West End” has now been rechristened “Georgetown Extended” by real estate interests, much to the confusion of visitors to the West End Cinema. The ghetto neighborhood where I lived in my student days has now been similarly awarded the name of “Capitol Hill Extended,” and is listed by Forbes as one of the n…
A Note on Citizen Brown: Sterling A. Brown Writes to the Press
Sterling Brown was an engaged citizen of his nation and of the District of Columbia, as revealed in his published and unpublished communications with news organizations. In telegrams to editors, and letters to major news magazines responding to southern agrarians, we see the public, political side of citizen Brown. This article on Sterling A. Brown is prefaced by a brief two-part commentary on his stature as a poet and scholar and his collection …
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