American Poets in the 21st Century : The Poetics of Social Engagement /

"Emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and activism, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, and gender subjectivities. Rather than consider poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this volume's poets c...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dowdy, Michael (Editor), Rankine, Claudia, 1963- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political poetry, American.
Literature and society.
American poetry.
American essays.
FICTION > General.
American poetry > 21st century.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and activism, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, and gender subjectivities. Rather than consider poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this volume's poets create spaces, forms, and modes for entering the public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the contemporary"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages).
ISBN:9780819578310

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