"A Sense of Regard," says Laura McCullough, "is an effort to
collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and
considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and
race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared,
the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases."
The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse
racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range in style
from the personal and lyrical to the critical, are organized into
four broad groupings: Americanism, the experience of unsilencing
and crossing borders, interrogating whiteness, and language itself.
To read them is to listen in as the contributors speak what they
know, discover what they do not, and in the process often find
something new in themselves and their topic. As a reader you are
invited, says McCullough, "to be moved from one sense of regard to
another: to be provoked and to linger in that state. . . . To
query, quarrel, and consider."
"A Sense of Regard" grew out of a recent gathering of the
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), where a poet's
comments on the work of another sparked impassioned and contentious
conversations in person, in print, and online. Though race is often
thought of as an age-old topic in poetry, McCullough saw clearly
that there is still much to discuss, study, and tease apart. Moving
the conversation beyond the specificity of those initial AWP
encounters, with their mostly black/white focus on race, these
essays provide a context and a safe starting place for some
urgently needed discussions we too rarely have.
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