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Reading race in American poetry : an area of act
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- Creator
- edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- x, 232 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252025181, 0252025180, 9780252068324, 0252068327
- OCLC
- ocm41315318
- 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 -- Contributors -- Index