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Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) were prominent in the struggles of their peoples during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and beyond. This book scrutinizes the poetries of these poets to demonstrate their role in the struggle for civil and human rights of their peoples during this period. The book aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Trans-Pacific Political Connections; Chapter 3: Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Interdisciplinary Poetics (1920–1993); Chapter 4: Amiri Baraka and the “Saturation of Blackness” (1934-2014); Chapter 5: Sonia Sanchez: Between Black Nationalist and “Womanist” Poetics (1943– ); Chapter 6: Lionel Fogarty’s Multivalent, Identitarian Poetics (1958– ); Chapter 7: Conclusions; Appendix A: A Final Note about the Interview; Appendix B: Ethical Clearance Approval Form; Works Cited; Reviews.