American Poets in the 21st Century: The Poetics of Social...
Rankine, Claudia / Dowdy, Michael
Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consider poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this volume¿s poets create sites, forms, and modes for entering the public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the contempor...