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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"African American Poetry"”.
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police brutality, I argue that an African American poetic tradition persists …
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I Have Been Somewhere: Place In The South Carolina Poems Of Nikky Finney And Kwame Dawes
… of choices available to poets interested in poetry of emplacement.
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Nonfiction forms in contemporary poetry by Black and Asian American Writers
<p>Writers experiment with form inside poetry for various reasons, including a desire for play. Creating poetry is a creative process that involves experimentation. This research highlights poetry that adapts established nonfiction forms into poetry forms, examining poetry published in 2000-2024 by …
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The Grief You Can Swallow and the Rage You Can't
… including clinical studies, psalms, concrete poetry, and variant realities. Through the lens of personal loss the collection examines how traditional elegiac containers strain to hold modern experiences of mourning. The work engages with established forms like the ghazal and tanka while …
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Diversifying the Canon of American First World War Poetry
… poetic canon has remained stubbornly British. American war poetry has been excluded from the canon owing in part to vastly different war experiences. American forces did not begin to arrive in Europe until nearly three full years into the war, and many of those men would never see the front …