Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry Cultural Poetry / African American /LGBTQ+

Poetry / African American /LGBTQ+

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Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry Cultural Poetry / African American /LGBTQ+by Wang, Dorothy J When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets Li Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei mei