Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry Cultural no bank can keep them

no bank can keep them out and no jail can keep them in

This poem is dirge work but allows us to revel in the intricacies of our human condition

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Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry Cultural no bank can keep themby Wang, Dorothy J When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets Li Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei mei