American poets in the 21st century [electronic resource] : poetics of social engagement / edited by Claudia Rankine and Michael Dowdy.

"Emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and activism, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, and gender subjectivities. Rather than consider poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this volume's poets create spac...

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