Indeed, there are many incredible writers not mentioned below (Tan Lin and Srikanth Reddy are just two examples).
This portfolio cannot and should not be seen as a codification nor totalizing index of Asian or Asian-American poetry. Example: Jenny Zhang, John Yau, Ken Chen publish seminal essays concerning not only minstrelsy within conceptualist poetics, but also ruminative and responsive outcries to the scandalous persistence of racial appropriation (exemplified most recently by the Best American Poetry debacle). More specifically, as the poetry community confronts questions of racism prompted by larger cultural events as well as specific recent instances in the poetry community, Asian-American poets have played a tremendous role in challenging the status quo, no less valuable than the black radical tradition exemplified by poets such as Claudia Rankine and Fred Moten, among many, many others.Įxample: Cathy Park Hong publishes the essay “Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde” in Lana Turner that cracks the Internet. Wang are also profoundly shaping the discourse and attention of readers, both in and out of the academy. Organizations like Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Kundiman as well as literary scholars like Sianne Ngai and Dorothy J. The increasing vitality in contemporary American poetry is, to my mind, indistinguishable at present from the aesthetic and moral wealth of an extraordinary number of now active Asian-American poets, both young and old.
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