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A Poetics of Thingification: Dawn Lundy Martin and the Black Took Collective
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 67–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Joshua Lam Abstract In the last two decades, African American poets working in innovative and avant‐garde forms have produced poetry focused upon the theme of racial objectification. Individual and collaborative projects by Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, and Ronaldo V. Wilson, who write...
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NoOnesRose: An Interview with Pierre Joris
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of California Book of North African Literature , volume 4 of Poems for the Millennium ), and the importance of French poet Edmond Jabès. He goes on to address his choice to write in his fourth language, English, and the formative readings of American poetry and his connection to some of the New American Poets...
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In the Wake of Disaster: Black Women's Innovative Poetics
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 157–194.
Published: 01 May 2023
... whiteness of institutionalized modernism. As Shockley ( 2011 : 10) notes in her critical book Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry , such terms are used “with across-the-board dissatisfaction by poets and critics to identify work less interested in mastery...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 219–220.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Academic Fellow at New York Uni-
versity Shanghai.
Dawn Lundy Martin, poet and essayist, is the author of four books of poetry, includ-
ing Good Stock Strange Blood, forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2017. She
is professor of English and codirector of the Center for African American Poetry...
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Depejorating “Uplift” and Re-centering Race Poetry: Lorenzo Thomas's Extraordinary Measures
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 21–32.
Published: 01 May 2001
..., announces a long and complex African American poetic his-
tory of recovery and innovation that, despite ‘‘invisibility to academic critics’’
(222), has long engaged Black poets and critics. Notice, too, that the canon
in question is twentieth-century American poetry—not ‘‘Negro’’ or ‘‘Black’’
or ‘‘Afro...
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The Authenticity of Difference as “Curious Thing[s]”: Carl Phillips, Ed Roberson, and Erica Hunt
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 123–138.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and
adopt traditional (from Augustan to modernist) poetic forms and methods
have less cachet within the “progressive” wing of the literary establishment
and black poetry history than those who appear to use forms and adopt
methods from “[New] Negro,” “black,” and “African American” culture(s).
Thus...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 223–227.
Published: 01 November 2015
...—and a book of criticism, Rene-
gade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry.
She is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and
serves as creative writing editor for Feminist Studies.
Jayson Smith is a Bronx, New York–based writer...
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A Potential Intelligence: The Case of the Disappearing Poets
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 165–195.
Published: 01 August 2017
... . “The Fight and the Fiddle in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry.” In The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry , edited by Nelson Cary , 369 – 404 . New York : Oxford University Press . Frost Robert . 1928 . West-Running Brook . New York : Henry Holt...
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Amiri Baraka's Humanist Theater: A Reading of A Black Mass
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 31–63.
Published: 01 November 2024
... . Shockley Evie . 2011 . Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press . Smirlock Daniel . 1968 . “ Jones’ Black Mass .” Review, Campus Times ( Rochester ), December 6 . States Bert O . 1985...
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Introduction to Chinese Anthology of American Poetry (19th–20th c.), ed. Li Zhimin
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 83–84.
Published: 01 November 2021
... that has morphed into blues, gospels, jazz, and contemporary popular music, giving it the longest half-life in American poetry. And yet both the poetry and culture of indigenous people and of African Americans remained, until the twentieth century, separate from the poetry of European Americans, even...
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Who Ya Talkin’ With?
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 1–29.
Published: 01 November 2024
...) incisively articulates the materialist aspects of distribution of Brooks's poetry: Since Brooks chose to publish Riot with Broadside, readers had to approach the book within a specifically African American context. That context was tied to the artifact that bore the text. Readers of her earlier Harper...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 239–242.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Identity (2001).
Teresia Teaiwa is of African American, Banaban, and I-Kiribati (Pacific Islander) heri-
tage, was born in Honolulu, Hawai i, raised in the Fiji Islands, and now lives in Welling-
ton, New Zealand. Teresia’s poetry publications include Searching for Nei Nim’anoa
(1995) and Terenesia...
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Berlin and Boundaries: sollen versus geschehen
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 45–78.
Published: 01 August 2000
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13. Quoted in Frederick Woodard, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Native Impulse: Notes toward an
Ideological Biography, 1868–1897 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Xerox University Microfilms, 1976),
26.
14. Eberhard Brüning, ‘‘Stadtlust macht frei!: African-American Writers and Berlin (1892–
1932 in The City in African...
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The '90s
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 159–182.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and in Canada. Teresia Teiwa is a writer of African
American and Kirabati descent, with multiple Pacific affiliations, who is currently writing in
Aotearoa/New Zealand; her first book was published in Fiji.
. For those not familiar with Hawai‘i’s complicated language politics, Pidgin is the word...
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“Number, form, proportion, situation”: The Measure of Racial Comparison in Myung Mi Kim’s Dura
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 157–180.
Published: 01 November 2019
... choreography of low- wage service- sector labor in South Central Los Angeles: Stamped by purse. Bone soldered. Labor open. Light and propagation. That stolen. Torment a sum of pieces prices. Bodies in propulsion. Guatemalan, Korean, African- American sixteen year olds working check- out lanes. Hard and noisy...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 257–258.
Published: 01 May 2017
...: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics (2012), and Nobody’s Business:
Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics (2013)—and the coeditor of two essay
collections, Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow (2003) and Modern
American Poetry: Points of Contact (2013). A new book, A Mine...
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Books Received
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 February 2001
... Press, 2000.
Kafū, Nagai. American Stories. Trans. Mitsuko Iriye. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2000.
Liking, Werewere. ‘‘It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral’’ and ‘‘Love-across-a-Hundred-
Lives Two Novels. Trans. Marjolijn de Jager. Caribbean and African Literature.
Charlottesville: University...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 295–297.
Published: 01 February 2002
... and their particular impact
on African American women.
Lars-Hakan Svensson teaches English at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is a
poet, translator, scholar, and critic. Recent translations include books by Paul Mul-
doon and John Matthias. He has also edited and translated the correspondence
between Robert...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 February 2009
... Investiga-
tion (ICI), which will support the development of scholarship on various aspects of
the African diaspora. She recently lectured in Berlin at the Free University, the Cen-
ter for North American Studies, and at the Humboldt University, as well as Nanzan
University in Nagoya, Japan.
Silvia...
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Books Received
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 199–201.
Published: 01 August 2005
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Coe, Jonathan. Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson. New York: Con-
tinuum, 2004.
Dave, Shilpa, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren, eds. East Main Street: Asian
American Popular Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2005.
Ford, Karen Jackson. Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer...
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