Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (Contemp North American Poetry)

Contested Records analyzes how some of the most well-known twenty-first century North American poets work with fraught documents. Whether it's the legal paperwork detailing the murder of 132 African captives, state transcriptions of the last words of death row inmates, or testimony from miners and rescue workers about a fatal mine disaster, author Michael Leong reveals that much of the power of contemporary poetry rests in its potential to select, adapt, evaluate, and extend public documentation.

• | Author: Michael Leong
• | Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• | Publication Date: May 13, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 308 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1609386892
• | ISBN-13: 9781609386894