11Poetics. (1st August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dowling, Sarah
• Is Part Of: Year's work in critical and cultural theory. Volume 30:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 186
• Page End: 206
• Publication Date: 2022-08-01
• Subjects: English literature -- Periodicals; Critical theory -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals; 820.9
• DOI: 10.1093/ywcct/mbac011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-4254

Abstract

Abstract: This review examines five books published in the field of poetics in 2021: Andrea Brady's Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint ; Tobias Menely's Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics ; Kevin Quashie's Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being ; Rachel Zolf's No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics ; and Timothy Yu's Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia . Together, these texts reveal important new directions in historical poetics, and a growing closeness between poetics and Black studies. The chapter is structured under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. Historical Poetics; 3. Poetics and Black Studies; 4. Conclusion.