A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race
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Overview
A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”
The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range in style from the personal and lyrical to the critical, are organized into four broad groupings: Americanism, the experience of unsilencing and crossing borders, interrogating whiteness, and language itself. To read them is to listen in as the contributors speak what they know, discover what they do not, and in the process often find something new in themselves and their topic. As a reader you are invited, says McCullough, “to be moved from one sense of regard to another: to be provoked and to linger in that state. . . . To query, quarrel, and consider.”
A Sense of Regard grew out of a recent gathering of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), where a poet’s comments on the work of another sparked impassioned and contentious conversations in person, in print, and online. Though race is often thought of as an age-old topic in poetry, McCullough saw clearly that there is still much to discuss, study, and tease apart. Moving the conversation beyond the specificity of those initial AWP encounters, with their mostly black/white focus on race, these essays provide a context and a safe starting place for some urgently needed discussions we too rarely have.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780820347875 |
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| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Publication date: | 02/15/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 320 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
CAMILLE T. DUNGY is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. She is the author of two poetry collections, What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison and Suck on the Marrow, and has helped edit two other poetry anthologies.
MAJOR JACKSON's debut volume of poems, Leaving Saturn, selected by poet and novelist Al Young to receive the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet, was nominated for a 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award and has received critical attention in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Parnassus, Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Callaloo, Grand Street, Post Road, the New Yorker, among other literary journals. Formerly the Literary Arts Curator of the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, he is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as a commission from The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. In 2003, he received the prestigious Whiting Writers' Award. He has given readings around the country and participated in many festivals including Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Poetry Society of America's Festival of New American Poets, and The New Yorker Festival in Bryant Park, New York City. He is a graduate of Temple University and University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program. Major Jackson is an associate professor of English at University of Vermont, a faculty member of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina, and a former Witter Bynner Fellow for the Library of Congress. He lives in South Burlington, Vermont.
TIMOTHY LIU's first book of poems, Vox Angelica, received the 1992 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His other three books were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. Liu, an associate professor of English at William Patterson University, has edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.
DAVID MURA is a memoirist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He has written the novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire and two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality, and Identity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Laura McCullough 1
I Racialization & Re imagination: Whitman & the New Americans 7
1 America Singing: An Address to the Newly Arrived Peoples Garrett Hongo 9
2 Song Sara Marie Ortiz 20
3 Finding Family with Native American Women Poets Ravi Shankar 25
4 Walt and I: What's American about American Poetry? Ken Chen 33
5 Inaugural Poems and American Hope Jason Schneiderman 43
6 Refusal of the Mask in Claudia Rankine's Post-9/11 Poetics Joanna Penn Cooper 50
7 I Am Not a Man Camille T. Dungy 57
II The Unsayable & the Subversive 61
8 Shut Up and Be Black Matthew Lippman 63
9 Unsexing I Am Joaquin through Chicana Feminist Poetic Revisions Leigh Johnson 72
10 New Female Poets Writing Jewishly Lucy Biederman 79
11 Looking for Parnassus in America Tim Liu 88
12 The Radical Nature of Helene Johnson's This Waiting for Love Hadara Bar-Nadav 91
13 Writing between Worlds Timothy Leyrson 97
14 Letting Science Tell the Story Paula Hayes 107
15 Identity Indictment Travis Hedge Coke 115
III Imperialism & Experiments: Comedy, Confession, Collage, Conscience 121
16 Carrying Continents in Our Eyes; Arab American Poetry after 9/11 Philip Metres 123
17 A Mystifying Silence: Big and Black Major Jackson 137
18 Writing White Martha Collins 155
19 Writing like a White Guy Jaswinder Bolina 162
20 Whiteness Visible Tess Taylor 173
21 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Ailish Hopper 183
22 No Laughing Matter: Race, Poetry, and Humor Tony Hoagland 199
23 The Unfinished Politics of Nathaniel Mackey's Splay Anthem Patrick S. Lawrence 210
IV Self as Center: Sonics, Code Switching, Culture, Clarity 221
24 Code Switching, Multilanguaging, and Language Alterity Mihaela Moscaliuc 223
25 New Living the Old in a New Way: The Jazz Idiom as Post-Soul Continuum Adebe Derango-Adem 233
26 Arthur Sze's Tesselated Poems Gerald Maa 243
27 Ed Roberson and the Magic Hour Randall Horton 252
28 Asian Americans: The Front and Back of the Bus David Mura 257
29 One Migh Could Heah They Voice: Conjuring African American Dialect Poems Charles H. Lynch 270
30 What's American about American Poetry Kazim Ali 278
31 What It Means to Be an American Poet Rafael Campo 290
Contributors 295
Index 301