Reading race in American poetry : an area of act / edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen.

Other author Nielsen, Aldon Lynn.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2000.
Descriptionx, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of Contents
Subjects
American poetry--20th century. --History and criticism.
Race in literature.
American poetry--African American authors. --History and criticism.
American poetry--White authors. --History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.

Contents Acknowledgements -- In the place of an introduction: eating Jim Crow / Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Prospects of America: nation as woman in the poetry of DuBois, Johnson, and McKay / Felipe Smith -- "Darken your speech": racialized cultural work of modern poets / Rachel Blau Duplessis -- W.S. Braithwaite vs. Harriet Monroe: the heavyweight poetry championship, 1917 / Lorenzo Thomas -- Poetics of the Americas / Charles Bernstein -- "The step of iron feet": creative practice in the war sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson and Gwendolyn Brooks / Maria K. Mootry -- Black margins: African-American prose poems / Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Bob Kaufman, Sir Real, and his revisionary surreal self-presentation / Kathryne V. Lindberg -- Decolonizing the spirits: history and storytelling in Jay Wright's Soothsayers and omens / C.K. Doreski -- From Gassire's lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War poems / Nathaniel Mackey -- Contributors -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99006417
ISBN0252025180 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0252068327 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS310.R34 R43 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold