Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics by Gonzalez, Rigoberto

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780472036974)

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Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics by Gonzalez, Rigoberto

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics

$34.95
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics by Gonzalez, Rigoberto

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition gathers Rigoberto Gonz lez'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 D az, Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, and Eduardo C. Corral, and many writers, such as Carmen Gim nez Smith and David Tom s Mart nez, 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. Alarc n--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. Gonz lez 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. Gonz lez's inclusive vision covers a wide landscape of writers, opening literary doors for sexual and ethnic minorities.




Author: Rigoberto Gonzalez
ISBN-10: 0472036971
ISBN-13: 9780472036974
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2017
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
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Rigoberto González is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Additionally, he has published children's books, fiction, and nonfiction, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Among many honors, he has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. In 2017, González was selected as the inaugural Stan Rubin Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Rainier Writing Workshop and as the Reid Writer at Fordham University for the 2017-2018 academic year.

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