Table of Contents

Introduction Timothy Yu; 1. New black aesthetics: Post civil-rights african american poetry Keith D. Leonard; 2. Traditions of innovation in asian american poetry Michael Leong; 3. Locations of contemporary latina/o poetry David A. Colón; 4. Sovereign poetics and possibilities in indigenous poetry Mishuana Goeman; 5. Changing topographies, new feminisms, and women poets Ann Vickery; 6. The nearly baroque in contemporary poetry Stephanie Burt; 7. Disability aesthetics and poetic practice Declan Gould; 8. Queer poetry and bioethics Sarah Dowling; 9. Trauma and the avant-garde Sueyeun Juliette Lee; 10. Blockade chants and cloud-nets: terminal poetics of the anthropocene Jonathan Skinner; 11. Give me poems and give me death: on the end of slam (?) Javon Johnson, Anthony Blacksher; 12. Anti-capitalist poetry Christopher Nealon; 13. Of poetry and permanent war in the twenty-first century Stephen Voyce; 14. Poetry in the program era Kimberly Quiogue Andrews; 15. The future of poetry studies Dorothy Wang.

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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Timothy Yu is author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, editor of Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets, and author of a poetry collection,100 Chinese Silences. He is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.