John Zheng
John Zheng is professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University and editor of African American Haiku: Cultural Visions; The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku; Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.; Conversations with Dana Gioia;and Conversations with Sterling Plumpp and coeditor of Conversations with Gish Jen,all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Conversations with Sterling Plumpp
The first collection of interviews with the renowned poet of Home/Bass and other much-admired works
Conversations with Gish Jen
Over two decades worth of interviews with an American author who skillfully addresses the merits and drawbacks of Eastern and Western cultures
African American Haiku
Cultural Visions
The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haiku
The Other World of Richard Wright
Perspectives on His Haiku
The first scholarly consideration of the over eight hundred haiku written late in Wright’s life
Conversations with Dana Gioia
The first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual
Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.
An indispensable source to American literature and African American studies offering an account of Ward’s intelligent and thoughtful responses to questions about literature, literary criticism, teaching, writing, civil rights, Black aesthetics, race, and culture
Conversations with Lenard D. Moore
A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America
- Copyright year: 2024