Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic.

The article discusses poetry focusing on gay black identity and agency, with particular focus given to poems including "Invocation" by Sabah As-Sabah, "The Geography of Poetry" by Assotto Saint, and "Rights and Permissions" by Essex Hemphill. The relationship between race theory and queer theory is...

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Published in:	African American Review Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 507 - 519
Main Author:	Steward, Douglas
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Fall99
Subjects:	Invocation (Poem) Geography of Poetry, The (Poem) Rights & Permissions (Poem) As-Sabah, Sabah Saint, Assotto Hemphill, Essex, 1957-1995 Gay poets 20th century (Literary period)
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