Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition / Rigoberto González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Rigoberto.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--Minority authors.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition gathers Rigoberto González's most important essays and book reviews, many of which consider the work of emerging poets whose identities and political positions are transforming what readers expect from contemporary poetry. A number of these voices represent intersectional communities, such as queer writers of color like Natalie Díaz, Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, and Eduardo C. Corral, and many writers, such as Carmen Giménez Smith and David Tomás Martínez, have deep connections to their Latino communities. Collectively, these writers are enriching American poetry to reflect a more diverse, panoramic, and socially conscious literary landscape. Also featured are essays on the poets' literary ancestors--including Juan Felipe Herrera, Alurista, and Francisco X. Alarcón--and speeches that address the need to leverage poetry as agency. This book fills a glaring gap in existing poetry scholarship by focusing exclusively on writers of color, and particularly on Latino poetry. González makes important observations about the relevance, urgency, and exquisite craft of the work coming from writers who represent marginalized communities. His insightful connections between the Latino, African American, Asian American, and Native American literatures persuasively position them as a collective movement critiquing, challenging, and reorienting the direction of American poetry with their nuanced and politicized verse. González's inclusive vision covers a wide landscape of writers, opening literary doors for sexual and ethnic minorities.

Contents:

Critical essays

Latino poetry : pivotal voices, era of transition

Alurista : toward a Chicano poetics

The twenty-first-century queer Chicano poetics of Eduardo C. Corral

The double doors into J. Michael Martinez's heredities

Hayden's Mexico

The Blatino poetics of Aracelis Girmay

Insert [gay black] boy

Queer immigrant world, queer immigrant word

Mexica warrior : the Amerindian vision of Natalie Diaz

Critical reviews

Publishers on a mission : three excellent debut poets

Powerful debuts by three African American poets

On Karankawa and The animal too big to kill

Midcareer : three poets and their four books

Twelve essential Latino poetry books

Juan Felipe Herrera's global voice and vision

Critical grace notes

The activist role of the writer

The writer's journey : a motivation

Poetry brings out the Mexican in me

Unpeopled Edens

Bill whitehead award for lifetime achievement speech

Erotic light, Amor Oscuro : on the queer poetics of Francisco X. Alarcón and his muse, Federico García Lorca.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472123193

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.9718871

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.