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Blind Faith (Paperback)
Mark Dowdy; As told to Michelle Dowdy
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Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martin
Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and
activist Martin Espada. It is also, to date, the only published
book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence.
Relying on innovative, highly original contributions from thirteen
Espada scholars, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue
critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his
body of writing. Acknowledged Legislator accomplishes this task in
three fundamental ways: by providing readers with background
information on the poet s life and work; offering an examination
into the subject matter and dominant themes that are frequently
contained in his writing; and finally, by advocating, in a variety
of ways, for why we should be reading, discussing, and teaching the
Espada canon. Divided into four distinct sections that modulate
through several theoretical frames from Espada s attention to
resistance poetics and concerns for historical memory to his
oppositional critique of neoliberalism and support for a class
consciousness grounded in labor rights Acknowledged Legislator
offers a cohesive, forward-thinking interpretive statement of the
poet s vision and proposes a critical (re)assessment for how we
read Espada, now and in the future.
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martin
Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and
activist Martin Espada. It is also, to date, the only published
book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence.
Relying on innovative, highly original contributions from thirteen
Espada scholars, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue
critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his
body of writing. Acknowledged Legislator accomplishes this task in
three fundamental ways: by providing readers with background
information on the poet's life and work; offering an examination
into the subject matter and dominant themes that are frequently
contained in his writing; and finally, by advocating, in a variety
of ways, for why we should be reading, discussing, and teaching the
Espada canon. Divided into four distinct sections that modulate
through several theoretical frames-from Espada's attention to
resistance poetics and concerns for historical memory to his
oppositional critique of neoliberalism and support for a class
consciousness grounded in labor rights-Acknowledged Legislator
offers a cohesive, forward-thinking interpretive statement of the
poet's vision and proposes a critical (re)assessment for how we
read Espada, now and in the future.
Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which
innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness,
focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic,
racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consider
poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this
volume's poets create sites, forms, and modes for entering the
public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the
contemporary. Like the earlier anthologies in this series, this
volume includes generous selections of poetry as well as
illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays. This unique
organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. A
companion website will present audio of each poet's work. Poets
included: Rosa Alcala Brian Blanchfield Daniel Borzutzky Carmen
Gimenez Smith Cathy Park Hong Christine Hume Bhanu Kapil Mauricio
Kilwein Guevara Fred Moten Craig Santos Perez Barbara Jane Reyes
Roberto Tejada Edwin Torres Essayists included: John Alba Cutler
Chris Nealon Kristin Dykstra Joyelle McSweeney Danielle Pafunda
Molly Bendall Eunsong Kim Michael Dowdy Brent Hayes Edwards J.
Michael Martinez Martin Joseph Ponce David Colon Urayoan Noel
"Broken Souths" offers the first in-depth study of the diverse
field of contemporary Latina/o poetry. Its innovative angle of
approach puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained
conversation in original and rewarding ways. In addition, author
Michael Dowdy presents ecocritical readings that foreground the
environmental dimensions of current Latina/o poetics.
Dowdy argues that a transnational Latina/o imaginary has emerged
in response to neoliberalism--the free-market philosophy that
underpins what many in the northern hemisphere refer to as
"globalization." His work examines how poets represent the places
that have been "broken" by globalization's political, economic, and
environmental upheavals. "Broken Souths" locates the roots of the
new imaginary in 1968, when the Mexican student movement crested
and the Chicano and Nuyorican movements emerged in the United
States. It theorizes that Latina/o poetics negotiates tensions
between the late 1960s' oppositional, collective identities and the
present day's radical individualisms and discourses of
assimilation, including the "post-colonial," "post-national," and
"post-revolutionary." Dowdy is particularly interested in how
Latina/o poetics reframes debates in cultural studies and critical
geography on the relation between place, space, and nature.
"Broken Souths" features discussions of Latina/o writers such as
Victor Hernandez Cruz, Martin Espada, Juan Felipe Herrera,
Guillermo Verdecchia, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Maurice Kilwein
Guevara, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jack Agueros, Marjorie Agosin, Valerie
Martinez, and Ariel Dorfman, alongside discussions of influential
Latin American writers, including Roberto Bolano, Ernesto Cardenal,
David Huerta, Jose Emilio Pacheco, and Raul Zurita.
Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which
innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness,
focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic,
racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consider
poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this
volume's poets create sites, forms, and modes for entering the
public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the
contemporary. Like the earlier anthologies in this series, this
volume includes generous selections of poetry as well as
illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays. This unique
organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. A
companion website will present audio of each poet's work. Poets
included: Rosa Alcala Brian Blanchfield Daniel Borzutzky Carmen
Gimenez Smith Cathy Park Hong Christine Hume Bhanu Kapil Mauricio
Kilwein Guevara Fred Moten Craig Santos Perez Barbara Jane Reyes
Roberto Tejada Edwin Torres Essayists included: John Alba Cutler
Chris Nealon Kristin Dykstra Joyelle McSweeney Danielle Pafunda
Molly Bendall Eunsong Kim Michael Dowdy Brent Hayes Edwards J.
Michael Martinez Martin Joseph Ponce David Colon Urayoan Noel
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