Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Jenkins, Grant Matthew

This monograph identifies and investigates the ‘other-conscious’ ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tradition in the African Diaspora of ethical writings that put the Other first, this work shows how black poets writing in an avant garde or experimental vein in the United States push language to its limits to reveal how poetry can address and exemplify ethical postures towards other people. This other-centered vantage allows the poets to incisively comment on some of this period’s most pressing ethical issues, including postcolonial and racialized violence, the history of slavery and segregation in America, and the expansion of human consciousness. The writers involved in this study include Nathaniel Mackey, Erica Hunt, Will Alexander, Harryette Mullen, and Mark McMorris.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2025-11-06

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031713699

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71367-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 345