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....

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Publicado en:Hecate Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 07 - 26
Autor principal: Pereira, Malin
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Hecate 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.