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

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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Nielsen, Aldon Lynn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2000.
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.
White people > United States > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
American poetry.
American poetry > African American authors.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.

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