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Foreword by preeminent poet and scholar Fred Moten, with a group of influential contributors, including Dan Beachy-Quick, Stefania Heim, and Brian Teare
There are more than 1,000 writing BFA and MFA programs in the United States, boasting thousands of students and readers who will teach and buy this book
This is one of the first collections to intentionally bridge the gap between the massive poetry community and academics, two major markets of readers and book buyers
The NEA reported in 2018 that roughly 28 million people read poetry in the last year; this collection positions poets as thought leaders at a critical time in the rise of poetry readership
List of contents
Contents
Foreword, Approximity (in the life, her attempt to bring the life of her mother close
Fred Moten
Introduction, Unsettling Proximities
Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis
Thinking as Burial Practice: Exhuming a Poetic Epistemology in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Emerson
Dan Beachy-Quick
Feeling the Riot: Fugitivity, Lyric, and Enduring Failure
José Felipe Alvergue
Essay in Fragments, a Pile of Limbs: Walt Whitman's Body in the Book
Stefania Heim
Citation in the Wake of Melville
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Touching the Horror: Poe, Race, and Gun Violence
Karen Weiser
Homage to Bayard Taylor
Benjamin Friedlander
Revising The Waste Land: Black Antipastoral & The End of the World
Joshua Bennett
Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859-1937: Night Over Night
Cole Swensen
Nights and Lights in Nineteenth Century American Poetics
Cecily Parks
The Earth Is Full of Men
Brian Teare
Making Black Cake in Combustible Spaces
M. NourbeSe Philip
"The Tinge Awakes": Reading Whitman and Others in Trouble
Leila Wilson
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Illustration Credits
Editors
Contributors
About the author
Alexandra Manglis is an editor, writer of short fiction and creative non-fiction, and co-founder of the experimental poetry magazine Wave Composition. Her work has appeared in The Millions, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Strange Horizons. She is an enthusiastic alumna of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and holds a D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford. She lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Kristen Case is the author of the critical study American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe. Her first poetry collection, Little Arias, won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and her second collection, Principles of Economics, won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is co-editor of Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments and director of Thoreau's Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau. She teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is director of the New Commons Project, a public humanities initiative sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. She lives in Temple, Maine.
Summary
“Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis have put together something beautiful and deep about how things go together in a place that sells, but no longer prides, itself on having figured out how things go together better than any other place, at any time. This anthology tells the truth and exposes that lie.” —FRED MOTEN
Foreword
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"[These essays] plumb the traditional American canon—and significant texts on its periphery—to contend with the questions of national ethos and identity that resound today. Editors Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis suggest the ways poetry might be both agitator and balm in times of social crisis, as thirteen poets write about topics such as Poe and race, gun violence, and the Black pastoral." —Poets & Writers
"Displaying a sophisticated sense of poetics as well as a good grasp of history and its implications for the present moment . . . [the editors] have done a remarkable job of bringing together such a challenging collection." —Harvard Review
