FURIOUS FLOWER
African American Poetry, 1960-1995

ALDON L. NIELSEN

Biography

Aldon L. Nielsen, professor of English at San Jose State University, is the author of Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality (1994). Nielsen's two collections of poetry are Evacuation Routes and Heart Strings. Nielsen was producer, director and host of a San Jose State, California radio program, The Incognito Lounge, and published a poetry newsletter. Nielsen also served as director of poetry writing workshops at the Martin Luther King Public Library in Washington, D.C. His latest works are C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction (1997) and Black Chant (1998).