Background
Nielsen, Aldon Lynn was born on October 22, 1950 in Grand Island, Nebraska, United States. Son of Aldon Dale and Vivian L. Nielsen.
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Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
(Black Chant traces the embrace and transformation of blac...)
Black Chant traces the embrace and transformation of black modernisms and postmodernisms by African-American poets in the decades after the Second World War. Centering on groups of avant-garde poets, the study particularly attends to those poets whose radical forms of new writing formed the basis for much of what followed in the Black Arts period. Exploring the farthest reaches of black creative experimentation in words and music, Black Chant yields an invaluable reassessment of African-American cultural history as it has been shaped throughout the era we now call postmodern.
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Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) ( Paperback ) by Nielsen, Aldon Lynn published by Cambridge University Press
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Stepping Razor
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Poetry. "What Bogart was to crime flicks, Nielsen is to postmodern poetry--a conscience and a court jester by turns. Rueful comedy, at once spacey and rigorous, very funny. Read this book if it's the first thing you do"--David Bromige.
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Vext
(Poetry. VEXT is the most extensive poetry collection to d...)
Poetry. VEXT is the most extensive poetry collection to date by the author of STEPPING RAZOR (Aerial/Edge), HEAT STRINGS (available from SPD) and EVACUATION ROUTES. And finally, for a real treat, we can bring you our special millenarian cult with fustian topping, served over a chilled apothecary, surrounded by variegated virgules and smothered in venom. (Our Specials) Nielsen is also the author of the acclaimed critcal works READING RACE, WRITING BETWEEN THE LINES, and BLACK CHANT. He is Professor of Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
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Integral Music: Languages of African-American Innovation (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
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An important study of African American contributions to contemporary American poetry. Aldon Nielsen's book Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997) was a ground-breaking work of scholarship that examined modern and postmodern developments in the work of African American poets since the Second World War and their contributions to both African American culture and American modernism. Integral Music extends the terms of the studies begun in Black Chant through a more in-depth look at the work of key writers and poets in the decades following the Second World War. While Nielsen examines anew such key figures as Amiri Baraka, he also provides the first extended studies of significant but often overlooked figures in African American poetry, such as Russell Atkins and Stephen Jonas. His essay on Bob Kaufman points toward the critical intersection of poetry and jazz in African American letters, as does his essay on performance poet Jayne Cortez. Nielsen's studies in this volume affirm the importance and centrality of African American poets to American intellectual life and international, modernist, and postmodernist poetry today.
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- Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality (This work examines the inter-ethnic intertextuality and t...)
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
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Education
Bachelor, University Düsseldorf.C., 1977. Doctor of Philosophy, George Washington University, 1985. Master of Philosophy, George Washington University, 1985.
Career
Lecturer Howard University, Washington, 1985—1987. Professor San Jose (California) State University, 1987—1997. Fletcher Jones chair literature and writing Loyola Marymount University.A., 1997—2001.
Kelly professor American literature Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 2001. Humanist in residence District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, 1981—1982. Director poetry writing workshop Martin Luther King Public Library., Washington, 1984—1985.
Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1996.
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Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality
(This work examines the inter-ethnic intertextuality and t...)
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Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
(Black Chant traces the embrace and transformation of blac...)
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Integral Music: Languages of African-American Innovation (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
( An important study of African American contributions to...)
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Stepping Razor
(Poetry. "What Bogart was to crime flicks, Nielsen is to p...)
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Vext
(Poetry. VEXT is the most extensive poetry collection to d...)
- Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) ( Paperback ) by Nielsen, Aldon Lynn published by Cambridge University Press
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Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality
Membership
Member of Modern Language Association, College Language Association, Horton Society African American Poetry, African American Literature Culture Society.
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Married Anna Everett, August 5, 1989.
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1977
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1985 - 1987
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Recipient Larry Neal Poetry award, District of Columbia Commission Arts Humanities, 1983, Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, California State University, 1989, Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise award, California Sate University, 2000, Gertrude Stein Poetry award, Sun and Moon Press, 1994, 1995, Josephine Miles award for multicultural literature, 2005. Fellow Trustees Research stipend, California State University, 1988, 1992, National Education Association, 1991, 1996, Institute American Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles, 1993-1994, Trustees Research fellow, Loyola Marymount University, 1998, 2000. Grantee Individual Artist's grantee, District of Columbia Commission Arts Humanities, 1985, 1986.Recipient Larry Neal Poetry award, District of Columbia Commission Arts Humanities, 1983, Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, California State University, 1989, Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise award, California Sate University, 2000, Gertrude Stein Poetry award, Sun and Moon Press, 1994, 1995, Josephine Miles award for multicultural literature, 2005. Fellow Trustees Research stipend, California State University, 1988, 1992, National Education Association, 1991, 1996, Institute American Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles, 1993-1994, Trustees Research fellow, Loyola Marymount University, 1998, 2000. Grantee Individual Artist's grantee, District of Columbia Commission Arts Humanities, 1985, 1986.