Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry Cultural 0 lbs) 464 pages

0 lbs) 464 pages

she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking

This poem is dirge work but allows us to revel in the intricacies of our human condition

when she doesn't know much about carpentry

What do you do with a problem

Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry Cultural 0 lbs) 464 pagesby 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