Silence in Contemporary Poetry

by Kristina Marie Darling

This book analyzes the relationship between silence, formal innovation, and social justice in recent poetry by women, non-binary writers, and writers of color. Silence in poetry has been heretofore undertheorized, as most books that engage this topic are scholarly monographs focused on a single writer's work, such as Therese Lentfoer's Words and Silence: On the Poetry of Thomas Merton and Jean Franco's Cesar Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949979520
• ISBN13: 9781949979527
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages