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Bettering American Poetry, Volume 2 by Amy King; Jayy Dodd; Camile Rankine; Muriel Leung; Sarah Clark; Michael Wasson; Joshua Jennifer Espinoza; Hctor Ramrez; Kaveh Akbar; George Abraham; Steven Alvarez; Ruth Awad; Cameron Awkward-Rich; Ari Banias; Samiya Bashir; Zeina Hashem Beck; Destiny O. Birdsong; Ariana Brown; Jericho Brown; Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello; Kayleb Rae Candrilli; Chia-Lun Chang; Hayan Charara; Leila Chatti; Chen Chen; Lindsay; Tiana Clark; Allison Adelle Hedge Coke; Joey De Jesus; Demian DinYazhi; Anais Duplan; Tafisha A. Edwards; Justine el-Khazen; Siaara Freeman; Shamala Gallagher; Suzi F. Garcia; Hafizah Geter; torrin a. greathouse; Jacq Greyja; Paul Guest; Minal Hajratwala; Marwa Helal; KOKUM; Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada; Sade LaNay; Cecelia Rose LaPointe; Henry Wei Leung; Sarah Mara Medina; Kamilah Aisha Moon; Hieu Minh Nguyen; Christina Olivares; Wale Owoade; Xandria Phillips; Gabriel Ramrez; Justin Phillip Reed; Patrick Rosal; Nicole Sealey; Jess X. Snow; Christopher Soto; Nomi Stone; Lisa Summe; Chrysanthemum Tran; Lena Khalaf Tuffaha; Moss Angel the Undying; Vickie Vrtiz; Vanessa Anglica Villarreal; Nikki Wallschlaeger; Rachel Jamison Webster; Candace Williams is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bettering American Poetry, Volume 2 about?

We feel that to "better" American poetry is to jam dominant systems of taste to the best of our abilities, and to resignify the very phrase "American poetry" with the languages that it so desperately lacks. We intend to center voices of resistance, subjectivities that emerge from the radical margins, artists whose Americanness transcends nationalism and other borders, perspectives historically denied institutional backing--in short, poets and poetries that are urgent and necessary but do not get along nicely with Power. "Bettering American Poetry is an explosive revelation of the arriving generation of American poets-arriving from every part of the landscape, bringing energies, gifts, and ways of seeing and saying of every kind. Plunge into its pages. See/ hear the news of who we are." --Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty "This anthology and its squad of editors better American poetry by gathering a diverse formation of poets who inspire us to read across difference, speak against power, and breathe through struggle." --Craig Santos Perez, author of from unincorporated territory [lukao] "Thank you, editors, thank you, authors for utterly rearranging my cells. This is the only an

Author

Amy King; Jayy Dodd; Camile Rankine; Muriel Leung; Sarah Clark; Michael Wasson; Joshua Jennifer Espinoza; Hctor Ramrez; Kaveh Akbar; George Abraham; Steven Alvarez; Ruth Awad; Cameron Awkward-Rich; Ari Banias; Samiya Bashir; Zeina Hashem Beck; Destiny O. Birdsong; Ariana Brown; Jericho Brown; Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello; Kayleb Rae Candrilli; Chia-Lun Chang; Hayan Charara; Leila Chatti; Chen Chen; Lindsay; Tiana Clark; Allison Adelle Hedge Coke; Joey De Jesus; Demian DinYazhi; Anais Duplan; Tafisha A. Edwards; Justine el-Khazen; Siaara Freeman; Shamala Gallagher; Suzi F. Garcia; Hafizah Geter; torrin a. greathouse; Jacq Greyja; Paul Guest; Minal Hajratwala; Marwa Helal; KOKUM; Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada; Sade LaNay; Cecelia Rose LaPointe; Henry Wei Leung; Sarah Mara Medina; Kamilah Aisha Moon; Hieu Minh Nguyen; Christina Olivares; Wale Owoade; Xandria Phillips; Gabriel Ramrez; Justin Phillip Reed; Patrick Rosal; Nicole Sealey; Jess X. Snow; Christopher Soto; Nomi Stone; Lisa Summe; Chrysanthemum Tran; Lena Khalaf Tuffaha; Moss Angel the Undying; Vickie Vrtiz; Vanessa Anglica Villarreal; Nikki Wallschlaeger; Rachel Jamison Webster; Candace Williams

Publisher

New York, NY: Bettering Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780692979594