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 Berssenbrugge,
and Pamela Lu-the book contends that aesthetic forms are
inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the
writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of
critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their
discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh
light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets
who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the
formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of
aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang
argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry
with the same attention to language and form that they bring to
their analyses of writing by white poets.
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