Reading race in American poetry : "an area of act" / edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen.
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
©2000.
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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 Du Bois, Johnson, and McKay / Felipe Smith
- "Darken your speech": racialized cultural work of modernist 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
- Name index.