"A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late-twentieth-century U.S. Poetry

"A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late-twentieth-century U.S. Poetry
ISBN-10
083863897X
ISBN-13
9780838638972
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
239
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Author
Thomas Fink

Description

This volume analyzes the work of a racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse group of recent social poets. These figures -- Thylias Moss, John Yau, Denise Duchamel, Carolyn Forche, Joseph Lease, Gloria Anzaldua, Martin Espada, Melvin Dixon, and Stephen Paul Miller -- utilize a diversity of aesthetic strategies to address a number of central problems, such as poetic speculations about dangers and opportunities of visual representations by dominant and marginalized groups, effacement of specific communities' histories, and attempts at restoration of history.

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