Reading race in American poetry an area of act /
| Other Authors: | Nielsen, Aldon Lynn. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2000]
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| Physical Description: |
x, 232 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 -- Contibutors -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: |
x, 232 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0252025180 0252068327 |