Poetry. African American Studies. "Nothing changes until it's changed in everyone's memories. Earl S. Braggs remembers and records his experience, protesting America's attempt to make him smaller than these large, vivid, Kerouacian, music-saturated poems. The reader is returned, through repetition's felicities--the epic extension of the moment of composition--inward to our national soul"--Alice Notley.

Author City: CHATTANOOGA, TN USA

Earl S. Braggs, UC Foundation Professor and Herman H. Battle Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is the author of Hat Dancer Blue, winner of the 1992 Anhinga Prize selected by Marvin Bell, WALKING BACK FROM WOODSTOCK, HOUSE ON FONTANKA, CROSSING TECUMSEH STREET, IN WHICH LANGUAGE DO I KEEP SILENT, and YOUNGER THAN NEIL. "After Allyson," a chapter from his yet to be published novel, Looking for Jack Kerouac, won the 1995 Jack Kerouac Literary Prize. Other awards include a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Chattanooga Allied Arts Individual Artist Grant. Supported by Summer Fellowships from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he traveled and wrote in Russia in 1998, France on 2002, and Spain in 2005. He is a native of Wilmington, North Carolina.