Reading race in American poetry
Subtitle: an area of act
By: edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen.
Contributors: Nielsen, Aldon Lynn.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
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; Whites -- United States -- Intellectual life; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature
Description: Here, inter-racial poets and critics join together to analyze the role that race plays in the reading and writing of American poetry, and the role that poetry plays in our understanding of race.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: In the place of an introduction: eating Jim Crow / Aldon Lynn Nielsen; title: Prospects of America: nation as woman in the poetry of DuBois, Johnson, and McKay / Felipe Smith; title: "Darken your speech": racialized cultural work of modern poets / Rachel Blau Duplessis; title: W.S. Braithwaite vs. Harriet Monroe: the heavyweight poetry championship, 1917 / Lorenzo Thomas; title: Poetics of the Americas / Charles Bernstein; title: "The step of iron feet": creative practice in the war sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson and Gwendolyn Brooks / Maria K. Mootry; title: Black margins: African-American prose poems / Aldon Lynn Nielsen; title: Bob Kaufman, Sir Real, and his revisionary surreal self-presentation / Kathryne V. Lindberg; title: Decolonizing the spirits: history and storytelling in Jay Wright's Soothsayers and omens / C.K. Doreski; title: From Gassire's lute: Robert Duncan's Vietnam War poems / Nathaniel Mackey; title: Contibutors; title: Index.