A Seat at the Front of the Bus of American Poetry: Wanda Coleman's "Retro Rogue Anthology" in Mercurochrome.
A literary criticism of the "Mercurochrome," a collection of poem by African American artist Wanda Coleman is presented. It focuses on the book's fifth section titled "Retro Rogue Anthology" which stages Coleman's claim to a place in the canon of American poetry under the genre of "rogue" anthology....
| Publicado en: | Hecate Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 07 - 26 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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2014
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| Sumario: | A literary criticism of the "Mercurochrome," a collection of poem by African American artist Wanda Coleman is presented. It focuses on the book's fifth section titled "Retro Rogue Anthology" which stages Coleman's claim to a place in the canon of American poetry under the genre of "rogue" anthology. Topics include the poetic series as a turning point in Coleman's poetic development, and her migration to a contemporary American poetic identify entering into relationship to cosmopolitanism. |
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