During the mid-twentieth century, Robert Lowell cleaved poetics into two essential styles when he asserted a difference between the “cooked” and “uncooked.” Adhering to this concept into the latter half of the twentieth century, critics and poets have used these labels to describe emerging work. Eliot Weinberger even reaffirmed these two camps in his anthology […]
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Working Title — Black Lives Matter: The Extension of Political Poetry in the Black Arts Movement and the Harlem Renaissance Revealing American Resistance to the Diversity of Black Lives
Working Title — Black Lives Matter: The Extension of Political Poetry in the Black Arts Movement and the Harlem Renaissance Revealing American Resistance to the Diversity of Black Lives Through several centuries, poetry has held a position in America as an agent of social change, a medium of choice for the rebel, the activist. Poets […]
The Moving “I”: Post-Identity in Asian American Poetry
This project will look at the matter of identity in Asian American poetry. Identity is a difficult thing to pin down, especially in a country made up of immigrants. Generalizing identities based on ethnic or racial groups is difficult because of how varied, and often nebulous and always personal the matter of identity is. The […]
Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers: The Postconfessional Familial Lyric
Good evening all, Though I am going to provide physical copies for tomorrow’s class, I thought I would go ahead and post my final project proposal. I am…probably going to need help rephrasing some things, focusing my research, and figuring out when to capitalize “postconfessional” and when to not. Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers: The […]
Final Project Musings and To-Read List
For my paper, I’m trying to focus on investigating the idea of “double-consciousness,” racial authenticity, and identity in African-American poetics across the 20th century and into the 21st century. I want to trace how race has been poeticized and politicized through the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and today with a resurgence of racial […]