Aldon Lynn Nielsen Explained

Aldon Lynn Nielsen (born in 1950 in Grand Island, Nebraska) is an American poet, and literary critic.

Life

He was raised in the District of Columbia, where he graduated from the Federal City College and from the George Washington University, with a Ph.D. He taught at Howard University, San Jose State University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University. He is the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature in the Pennsylvania State University.^[1]

He lives in California with his wife, Anna Everett, an eemritus professor at U.C. Santa Barbara. Nielsen loves to wear hats and owns several tablets.

Awards

• Larry Neal Award for poetry
• two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovation.
• SAMLA Studies Prize, a Myers Citation and the Kayden Award for best book in the humanities, for Reading Race
• Josephine Miles Award, for Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
• American Book Award for Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition
• Darwin Turner Award

Works

Poetry

• Heat Strings
• Evacuation Routes, Score, 1994
• Book: Stepping Razor. Edge Books. 1997. 978-0-9619097-9-6 .
• Book: VEXT. Sink Press. 1999. 978-0-9623806-5-5 .
• Book: Mixage. Zasterle. 2005. 978-84-87467-43-1 .
• Book: Mantic Semantic. Hank's Loose Gravel Press. 2011 .
• Book: A Brand New Beggar. Steerage Press. 2013. 978-0983632665 .
• Book: Tray. Make Now Books . 2017. 9781942272106 .
• Book: You Didn't Hear This from Me . Theenk Books . 2018 . 97809883891-7-5 .
• Book: Back Pages: Selected Poems . BlazeVOX Books . 2021 . 978-1609643812 .
• Book: Spider Cone . Selva Oscura Press . 2022 . 979-8-9856636-1-7 .

Criticism

• Book: Reading race: white American poets and the racial discourse in the twentieth century. University of Georgia Press. 1990. 978-0-8203-1273-6 . (reprint)
• Book: Black Chant: Languages of African American Posmodernism. Cambridge University Press. 1997. 978-0-521-55526-5 .
• Book: C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction. University Press of Mississippi. 1997. 978-0-87805-973-7 .
• Book: Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition. University of Michigan Press. 2008. 978-0-472-06892-0 . Lorenzo Thomas. Aldon Lynn Nielsen .
• Book: Reading race in American poetry: an area of act. registration. Aldon Lynn Nielsen.. University of Illinois Press. 2000. 978-0-252-06832-4 .
• Writing between the Lines
• Book: An exaltation of forms: contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art. registration. 385. Aldon Lynn Nielsen.. Oulipian Poetry. Annie Finch . Kathrine Varnes. University of Michigan Press. 2002. 978-0-472-06725-1 .
• Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
• Book: The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka . Palgrave . 1990. 978-3030757571 .

As editor

• Book: The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas . Aldon Lynn Nielsen . Laura Vrana . Wesleyan. 2019.
• Book: A Spell in the Pokey: The Selected Poems of Hugh Walthall . Selva Oscura. 2019 .

Anthologies

• Book: Best American Poems anthology . John Ashbery . David Lehman. Macmillan. 1988. 978-0-02-044181-6 .
• Book: Every Goodbye Ain't Gone. Aldon Lynn Nielsen . Lauri Ramey . Lauri Scheyer . University of Alabama Press. 2006. 978-0-8173-5279-0 .

External links

• "Author's blog"
• "Interview with Aldon Lynn Nielsen", May 19, 2006

Notes and References

1. Web site: Welcome to the Department of English . 2009-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100101021150/http://english.la.psu.edu/facultystaff/Bio_Nielsen.htm . 2010-01-01 . dead .