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American Political Poetry in the 21st Century

Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230604308

ISBN: 978-1-349-53714-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 11, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Political Poetry in the United States

Dowdy, Michael

Pages: 1 –33

[Poet and critic Edward Hirsch once wrote that poetry embodies a “magical potency” (How to 1–5). In this book I explore the ways that contemporary American poets and hip-hop artists1 transmit, impart, and create political potency in their work without losing the magic and dynamism that is usually...
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Chapter 2Embodied Agency

Dowdy, Michael

Pages: 35 –75

[In his book about globalization, capitalism, and the failure of developing countries to integrate the extralegal poor into their economic and legal structures, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto explains a legal theory that responds to the ways that people organize their lives outside of the...
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Chapter 3Equivocal Agency

Dowdy, Michael

Pages: 77 –115

[If the poems of embodied agency in chapter 1 foreground models of agency that style personal and communal experience as politically and poetically viable, the poems in chapter 2 largely bypass questions of specific experience. Political poems of equivocal agency do not focus on the first-person...
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Chapter 4Migratory Agency

Dowdy, Michael

Pages: 117 –152

[As in the previous chapters, the goal of chapter 3 is to elucidate one of the primary rhetorical strategies of American political poetry. However, unlike the previous chapters on embodied and equivocal agencies, this one on migratory agency makes more significant departures from current poetry...
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Chapter 5Contestatory Urban Agency

Dowdy, Michael

Pages: 153 –187

[With larger, potentially more diverse audiences and live shows that can create a collective experience of identity, many hip-hop artists have greater political currency than even the best-known U.S. poets. Hip-hop’s underlying understanding of agency is best viewed in how it imagines its place...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Dowdy, Michael

Pages: 189 –199

[In this book I have tried to chart what I perceive are the major rhetorical strategies of political poems in the United States from the mid-1960s to the present. In order to explain the general distinguishing features as well as the subtleties of each strategy, especially their attendant figures...

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