A sense of regard : essays on poetry and race / edited by Laura McCullough.
"McCullough has collected the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the confluence of poetry and race in our time: the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases. The book bri...
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Laura McCullough
- I. Racialization & reimagination: Whitman & the new Americans
- America singing: an address to the newly arrived peoples / Garrett Hongo
- Song / Sara Marie Ortiz
- Finding family with Native American women poets / Ravi Shankar
- Walt and I: what's American about American poetry? / Ken Chen
- Inaugural poems and American hope / Jason Schneiderman
- Refusal of the mask in Claudia Rankine's post-9/11 poetics / Joanna Penn Cooper
- I am not a man / Camille T. Dungy
- II. The unsayable & the subversive
- Shut up and be black / Matthew Lippman
- Unsexing I am Joaquin through Chicana feminist poetic revisions / Leigh Johnson
- New female poets writing Jewishly / Lucy Biederman
- Looking for Parnassus in America / Tim Liu
- The radical nature of Helene Johnson's This waiting for love / Hadara Bar-Nadav
- Writing between worlds / Timothy leyrson
- Letting science tell the story / Paula Hayes
- Identity indictment / Travis Hedge Coke
- III. Imperialism & experiments: comedy, confession, collage, conscience
- Carrying continents in our eyes: Arab American poetry after 9/11 / Philip Metres
- A mystifying silence: big and black / Major Jackson
- WRiting white / Martha Collins
- Writing like a white guy / Jaswinder Bolina
- Whiteness Visible / Tess Taylor
- The gentle art of making enemies / Ailish Hopper
- No laughing matter: race, poetry, and humor / Tony Hoagland
- The unfinished politics of Nathaniel Mackey's Splay anthem / Patrick S. Lawrence
- IV. Self as center: sonics, code switching, culture, clarity
- Code switching, multilanguaging, and language alterity / Mihaela Moscaliuc
- New living the old in a new way: the jazz idiom as post-soul continuum / Adebe Derango-Adem
- Arthur Sze's tessellated poems / Gerald Maa
- Ed Roberson and the magic hour / Randall Horton
- Asian Americans: the front and back of the bus / David Mura
- One migh could heah they voice: conjuring African American dialect poems / Charles H. Lynch
- What's American about American poetry / Kazim Ali
- What it means to be an American poet / Rafael Campo.