Purplish poetry anger publics / José Felipe Alvergue.
| Author/creator | Alvergue, José Felipe author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2025] |
| Description | 182 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | New American canon New American canon. ^A1154829 |
| Contents | soma -- trauma -- post/nation -- ¡vecinos! -- dreams. |
| Abstract | "Description: Purplish examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. By way of BIPOC and QTPOC poets engaging with negativity--frustration, anger, distress, etc.--José Felipe Alvergue argues that affects that reflect a counternarrative to benevolence challenge the colonial underpinnings of "American publics," as a concept of democratic participation and practice of community. "Purplish" refers to the blend of red and blue political parties, as well as the color of a bruise. The rise of purple regions throughout America have articulated the impossible circumstances of our politics in being accommodated by any previous writing that paints publics in a broad, homogenous brush. These purple politics play out daily within spaces we rely on for shared comfort, and belonging, namely communities and neighborhoods, dinner tables, school board meetings, and social media. Purplish America describes the uncertain terrain of potential violence, potential conflict, distrust, and post-factualism upon which language and soma are still expected to thrive; this is an emergent and exigent evolution in the assembly of collective consciousness through which history must continue to signify a shared past, and empathy a shared future. In this work of creative criticism, Alvergue theorizes anger (not hate) in American poetry, filtered through the lens of his own experiences. Purplish challenges the idea of an objective, or unbiased cultural rationale to purple regions in America by historicizing how anger has been systemically cleansed from the collective sentiments regarding nation building throughout key moments of our national heritage. Engaging with anger as a knowledge includes analyses of embodied or somatic response to stress by way of neurobiological frameworks for understanding how immunological health (inflammation, interstitial tissue health, vagal networks, etc.) manifests between "conditions" that carry moral value in our history of medicalized identities: anxiety, depression, addiction, early death, etc., which seem to afflict specific non-White-body communities more than others"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Alvergue, José Felipe, 1979- Purplish Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2025 9781685970154 |
| LCCN | 2024044559 |
| ISBN | 9781685970147 paperback |
| ISBN | 1685970141 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |