Full Description
This edited volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to examine works of poetry that engage, question, or reimagine history.
Authors question the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of archival work to explore the ways in which poetry has offered a hypothetical testing ground where the power dynamics, upheavals, and discontent reflected in historical texts can be renegotiated.
Contents
1. The Surface of the Break: A Theory of Archival Aesthetics (John James)
2. "As If God Made the Picture and Matched It with a Living Hieroglyph": Myth, Symbol, and Subjectivity in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt (Kristina Marie Darling)
3. The Afterlives of a Ming Courtesan: The Re-Invention of Zhang Qiao (1615-1633) in Chinese Cultural Products (Haihong Yang)
4. "Flint and Tinder - Understanding the Difference Between 'Poetry of Witness' and 'Documentary Poetics'" (Sandra Beasley)
5. Archival Renegotiations of the U.S.-México Border: An Autoethnography (D. Seth Horton)
6. To Tinker with the Machinery of Death: Conceptual Poetry and Archival Justice (J.S. Westbrook)
7. Catching Our Country's Historical Moment in American Poems (Ibis Gomez-Vega)
8. A Wind Kept Blowing in My Body: The Archives as Song with Victoria Chang, Deborah Paredez, and Mai Der Vang (Tiffany Troy)
