Review of Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry

Point One: Charles Henry Rowell and W. W. Norton & Company have published an anthology. Some of the poems in the anthology are extraordinary.

Point Two: Amiri Baraka reviewed this anthology in Poetry.  Some of his criticisms of the anthology are extraordinary.

Point Three: Extraordinary points have  been made.  There is nothing more to say.

Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
August 6, 2013