{"id":351,"date":"2021-12-08T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:59:10","slug":"rainbow-darkness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/poetry\/rainbow-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">KEITH TUMA, EDITOR &amp; LYNDA KOOLISH, PHOTOGRAPHER<br><br>2005. ISBN 978-1881163473<br>$17.50  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rainbow-Darkness-Anthology-American-University\/dp\/1881163474\">Amazon<\/a> | Pathway <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry<\/em>&nbsp;gathers poems by a range of established and newer African American poets including <strong>Jeff Allen, Wanda Coleman, C. S. Giscombe, Terrance Hayes, Kim Hunter, Honor\u00e9e Jeffers, Nathaniel Mackey, Harryette Mullen, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Reginald Shepherd, Timothy Siebles, Evie Shockley, Lorenzo Thomas, Natasha Trethewey, Anthony Walton, Crystal Williams<\/strong>, and <strong>Tyrone Williams<\/strong>, and essays by <strong>Herman Beavers, Aldon Nielsen, Kathy Lou Schultz, Evie Shockley, <\/strong>and <strong>Lorenzo Thomas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The anthology grew from poems and talks presented at <strong>Marjorie Cook Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry<\/strong> held at Miami University in September 2003. The anthology hopes to extend the conversations that took place at the conference to another, larger audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Reviews &amp; Such<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The poems and essays in\u00a0<em>Rainbow Darkness<\/em>\u00a0allow us to sample how diversity functions in contemporary African American poetry. The anthology urges us to ponder \u2018diversity within diversity\u2019 rather than binaries that castrate serious thought. The work of the poet, to echo Lorenzo Thomas\u2019 plenary address, is to find \u2018the words to go with the music.\u2019 As one reads\u00a0<em>Rainbow Darkness<\/em>, however, the sense that music is plural intensifies; now it is probable that musics seek poets who can best use words to lessen our existential wretchedness. For anyone who has a genuine interest in poetry,\u00a0<em>Rainbow Darkness<\/em>\u00a0provides some of the evidence required to understand the impact of multiple consciousness on the traditions of African American poetry.<strong>\u2014Jerry W. Ward<\/strong>, Jr.<br>Editor of\u00a0<em>Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry<\/em><br>Dillard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We who gathered at this conference, and you who read this anthology, have a richer, fuller sense of the vast possibilities of African American poetry, precisely because so many different voices were brought together. Potential cacophony, potential choir. <strong>\u2014Evie Shockley<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Rainbow Darkness<\/em>\u00a0was reviewed by Maria Damon in the Winter 2006\/2007 issue of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raintaxi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rain Taxi<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"924\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/RainbowDarkness_Cover.png\" alt=\"Rainbow Darkness\" class=\"wp-image-577\" style=\"width:450px;height:693px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/RainbowDarkness_Cover.png 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/RainbowDarkness_Cover-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEITH TUMA, EDITOR &amp; LYNDA KOOLISH, PHOTOGRAPHER 2005. ISBN 978-1881163473$17.50 Amazon | Pathway Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry&nbsp;gathers poems by a range of established and newer African American poets including Jeff Allen, Wanda Coleman, C. S. 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