When words become flesh: an Anthology of New Generation Poetry.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Edited by Myisha V. Cherry Mwaza Publications, September 2002 $14.00, ISBN 0-971-76631-2

Over the past three years, the renaissance in "people's poetry"--that which is political, powerful and for mass consumption--has produced several top-notch collections. Mwaza Publications' anthology, when words become flesh, leaps into this big pond as a small fish--a very small fish, at that. No heavy-hitter "last generation" editors; no foreword from highly regarded, vaguely prominent authorities; not even a cameo from a new generation poetry icon. Who are these people? What do they think they are doing? These poets are another line in the continuum that gave birth to the Black …