A Sense of Regard

Very excited that A Sense of Regard: essays on poetry and race, forthcoming later this year from Georgia University Press has a cover!    Here's a sneak-peek at the TOC. The contributors are amazing and did brave, honest, sometimes beautiful and even haunting essays.   Can't wait for it to be in the world.
Sneak-peek at the TOC:

Introduction: Editor, Laura McCullough

Section I.   Racialization and Re-imagination:   
Whitman & the New Americans

Garrett Hongo America Singing: An Address to the Newly Arrived Peoples 
Sara Marie Ortiz  Song
Ravi Shankar   Finding Family with Native American Women Poets
Ken Chen       Walt and I:  What’s American About American Poetry? 
Jason Schneiderman  Inaugural Poems and American Hope
Joanna Penn Cooper  Refusal of the Mask in Claudia Rankine’s Post-9/11 Poetics
Camille T. Dungy     I am Not a Man

  Section II.  The Unsayable & the Subversive

Matthew Lippman      Shut Up and Be Black
Leigh Johnson   Unsexing I am Joaquín through Chicana Feminist Poetic Revisions
Lucy Biederman New Female Poets Writing Jewishly
Roxanne Naseem Rashedi    Deconstructing the Erotic and Raced Body
Timothy Liu    Looking for Parnassus in America
Hadara Bar-Nadav The Radical Nature of Helene Johnson’s This Waiting for Love
Tim Leyrson    Writing Between Worlds
Paula Hayes    Letting Science Tell the Story
Travis Hedge Coke Identity Indictment

Section III.  Imperialism & Experiments: Comedy, Confession, Collage, Conscience

Philip Metres Carrying Continents In Our Eyes: Arab American Poetry after 9/11
Major Jackson A Mystifying Silence: Big and Black  
Martha Collins Writing White 
Jaswinder Bolina Writing like a White Guy
Tess Taylor    Whiteness Visible
Ailish Hopper  The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Tony Hoagland  No Laughing Matter: Race, Poetry, and Humor
Patrick S. Lawrence The Unfinished Politics of Nathaniel Mackey’s Splay Anthem

Section IV.   Self as Center:  Sonics, Code-switching, Culture, Clarity

Mihaela Moscaliuc  Code-switching, Multilanguaging, and Language Alterity
Adebe DeRango-Adem New Living the Old in a New Way: The Jazz Idiom as Post-Soul Continuum
Gerald Maa     Arthur Sze’s Tesselated Poems 
Randall Horton Ed Roberson and the Magic Hour
David Mura     Asian Americans: The Front and Back of the Bus
Charles H. Lynch     One Migh Could Heah They Voice: Conjuring African American Dialect Poems
Kazim Ali      What’s American about American Poetry
Rafael Campo   What it Means to Be an American Poet

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