James Emanuel

James Andrew Emanuel (born June 15, 1921 in Alliance , Nebraska , † September 28, 2013 in Paris ) was an American poet , essayist and teacher living in France .

Life

James Emanuel grew up in Nebraska and studied after completing military service at Howard University and Northwestern University , where he received his master's degree in 1950. He completed his doctorate in 1953 at Columbia University . He then taught in New York City at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he a. a. Held courses in African American poetry . Emanuel also worked as an editor; his first project was an edition of poetry with work by Langston Hughes , whom Emanuel considered his mentor. Among his students was the critic Addison Gayle Jr. after him theIncreasingly frustrated by racism in the United States , he accepted the offer to move to Europe. He then taught as a Fulbright scholar in 1968/69 at the University of Toulouse , at the University of Grenoble and at the University of Warsaw . Most recently he lived in Paris.

In 1968, Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross published Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America and his first volume of poetry, The Treehouse and Other Poems , which was followed by a dozen other books such as Black Man Abroad (1978), Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958 -1989 (published 1991) and 2001 still The Force and the Reckoning , a mixture of autobiography , poems, essays and other writings. In his poem "Deadly James (For All the Victims of Police Brutality)" he processed the suicide of his only child in 1983. He corresponded with the poet Gwendolyn Brooks , the writer Ralph Ellison and the university professor Houston A. Baker . In his later years he wrote the so-called Jazz Haikus , which he created from 17 letters to jazz music .

Publications (selection)

• Langston Hughes (New York: Twayne)
• Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America with Theodore L. Gross (New York: Free Press)
• The Treehouse and Other Poems (Detroit: Broadside Press)
• Panther Man (Detroit: Broadside Press)
• How I Write / 2 with MacKinlay Kantor and Lawrence Osgood (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
• Black Man Abroad: The Toulouse Poems (Detroit: Lotus Press)
• A Chisel in the Dark (Poems Selected and New) (Detroit: Lotus Press)
• A Poet's Mind (New York: Regents)
• The Broken Bowl (New and Collected Poems) (Detroit: Lotus Press)
• Deadly James and Other Poems (Detroit: Lotus Press)
• The Quagmire Effect
• Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958–1989 (Detroit: Lotus Press)
• De la rage au cœur with Jean Migrenne and Michel Fabre (Thaon, France: Amiot / Lenganey)
• Blues in black and white
• Reaching for Mumia: 16 haiku
• Jazz from the Haiku King
• The Force and the Reckoning

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Obituary in The New York Times