{"product_id":"radical-poetics-essays-on-literature-culture-9780472039791","title":"Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature \u0026 Culture","description":"Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human feeling and behavior, and explores language-based solutions to common cultural conflicts that are often rooted in harmful assumptions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Instead of operating from a base of unquestioned thought and systemic tradition, \u003ci\u003eRadical Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e presents more inclusive and accurate ways of contemplating literary work. Building on ideas and theoretical practices from ?douard Glissant, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Saidiya Hartman, and Kimberl? Crenshaw, Queen reads for where love is present as well as for where it is absent--tracing systems of thought and aesthetic choices to track how characters are portrayed in terms of race, gender, class, and disability. She analyzes short stories, novels, nonfiction narratives, poetry, and a play from authors such as Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Dionne Brand, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, Natasha Trethewey, and Muriel Rukeyser. Queen's essays offer shifts in thinking about language--beyond calling out the ways language punishes vulnerability, entrenches harm, and suppresses true intercultural communication. Her intuitive approach aims to correct inaccuracies that have served as a foundation for the discriminatory thinking that undergirds American institutions and culture, particularly the continued glorification of violence. \u003ci\u003eRadical Poetics \u003c\/i\u003emakes a case for the imperative and practical value of understanding poetics beyond artistic and academic spaces and into everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKhadijah Queen\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is the author of six books of innovative poetry and hybrid prose, most recently \u003ci\u003eAnodyne \u003c\/i\u003e(Tin House, 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. With K. Ibura, she co-edited \u003ci\u003eInfinite Constellations\u003c\/i\u003e (FC2, 2023), a multi-genre anthology of speculative writing by authors from the global majority. Individual works appear in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e (UK), and widely elsewhere. In 2022, she was awarded a Disability Futures fellowship from United States Artists.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185862967570,"sku":"9780472039791","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9ad95487-a49a-4266-935f-598e95f49efe.jpg?v=1744590289","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/radical-poetics-essays-on-literature-culture-9780472039791","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}