Claudia Rankine & Michael Dowdy 
American Poets in the 21st Century [EPUB ebook] 
The Poetics of Social Engagement

Acknowledgments • Introduction by Michael Dowdy • ROSA ALCALÁ • Poems • from Undocumentaries • Everybody’s Authenticity • Job #6 • Autobiography • from The Lust of Unsentimental Waters • Rita Hayworth: Double Agent • Patria • from My OTHER TONGUE • Paramour • Voice Activation • Dear María • Poetics Statement • Poetics of Not-Mother Tongue • Rosa Alcalá’s Aesthetics of Alienation, by John Alba Cutler • BRIAN BLANCHFIELD • Poems • from Not Even Then • One First Try and Then Another • If the Blank Outcome in Dominoes Adds a Seventh Side to Dice • from A Several World • According to Herodotus • Edge of Water, Nimrod Falls, Montana • Pferd • Eclogue Onto an Idea • from series ’The History of Ideas, 1973–2012, ’ A Several World • Education • Ut Pictura Poesis • Eclogue in Line to View The Clock by Christian Marclay • Open House • Edge of Water, Moiese, Montana • Poetics Statement • from ’On Abstraction, Permitting Shame, Error and Guilt, Myself the Single Source’ • In the Dark with Brian Blanchfield, by Chris Nealon • DANIEL BORZUTZKY • Poems • from The Book of Interfering Bodies • The Book of Interfering Bodies • from In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy • Decomposition as Explanation • Illinois • from The Performance of Becoming Human • Let Light Shine Out of Darkness • The Performance of Becoming Human • Poetics Statement • the continuum: a broken introduction • Pardon Me Mr. Borzutzky / If, by Kristin Dykstra • CARMEN GIMÉNEZ SMITH • Poems • from Odalisque in Pieces • Prepartum • from Goodbye, Flicker • Hungry Office • Hans Hated Girls • from Milk & Filth • (Llorona Soliloquy) • (And the Mouth Lies Open) • from ’Parts of an Autobiography’ • from Be Recorder • from ’Post-Identity’ • Poetics Statement • ’The Call for Reversal is Native’: The Paradox of the Mother Tongue in the Work of Carmen Giménez Smith, by Joyelle Mc Sweeney • ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE • Poems • from Off-Season City Pipe • The Change • from Blood Run • Skeletons • Ghosts • Skeletons • from Streaming • We Were in a World • America, I Sing You Back • Poetics Statement • Quipu: a poetic • Resurrecting the Serpent, Reactivating Good Earth: Allison Hedge Coke’s Blood Run, by Chadwick Allen • CATHY PARK HONG • Poems • from Dance Dance Revolution • Roles • from series ’St. Petersburg Hotel, ’ Dance, Dance Revolution • 1. Services • Song That Breaks the World Record • from Engine Empire • Ballad in O • Ballad in A • Market Forces Are Brighter Than the Sun • Notorious • Poetics Statement • Building Inheritance: Cathy Park Hong’s Social Engagement in the Speculative Age, by Danielle Pafunda • CHRISTINE HUME • Poems • from Musca Domestica • A Million Futures of Late • from Alaskaphrenia • Comprehension Questions • Hume’s Suicide of the External World • from Shot • I Exhume Myself • Induction • Poetics Statement • Hum • Utter Wilderness: The Poetry of Christine Hume, by Molly Bendall • BHANU KAPIL • Poems • from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers • from Incubation: A Space for Monsters • from Humanimal, a Project for Future Children • from Schizophrene • from Ban en Banlieue • Poetics Statement • Perpetual Writing, Institutional Rupture, and the Performance of No: The Poetics of Bhanu Kapil, by Eunsong Kim • MAURICIO KILWEIN GUEVARA • Poems • from Postmortem • Postmortem • from Poems of the River Spirit • A City Prophet Talks to God on the 56C to Hazelwood • The Easter Revolt Painted on a Tablespoon • from Autobiography of So-and-so: Poems in Prose • Self-Portrait • Mirror, Mirror • A Tongue Is a Rope Bridge • The American Flag • from POEMA • Against Metaphor • At rest • Pepenador de palabras • Poema without hands • Poetics Statement • Mauricio Kilwein Guevara’s Scavenger Infrapoetics, by Michael Dowdy • FRED MOTEN • Poems • from Hughson’s Tavern • Rock the party, fuck the smackdown • five points, ten points • from B Jenkins • gayl jones • william parker/fred mcdowell • frank ramsay/nancy wilson • from The Feel Trio • from series block chapel • [whenever I listen to cornelius I think of cecily] • [welcome to what we took from is the state] • from I ran from it and was still in it • [I burn communities in shadow, underground, up on the] • [I often amount to no more than a stylistics. airrion] • [I am foment. I speak blinglish. at work they call me] • from The Little Edges • the gramsci monument • from The Service Porch • it’s not that I want to say • Poetics Statement • Sounding the Open Secret: The Poetics of Fred Moten, by Brent Hayes Edwards • CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ • Poems • from from unincorporated territory [saina] • from aerial roots • from aerial roots • from aerial roots • from aerial roots • from aerial roots • ginen aerial roots • from aerial roots • ginen aerial roots • Poetics Statement • Tidal Poetics: The Poetry of Craig Santos Perez, by J. Michael Martinez • BARBARA JANE REYES • Poems • from Poeta en San Francisco • [objet d’art: exhibition of beauty in art loft victorian claw tub] • [Kumintang] • [why choose pilipinas?] • [why choose pilipinas, remix] • [galleon prayer] • [ave maria] • [prayer to san francisco de asís] • (āzhə fīl) • from Diwata • The Bamboo’s Insomnia • Polyglot Incantation • The Villagers Sing of the Woman Who Becomes a Wave Who Becomes the Water Who Becomes the Wind • In the City, a New Congregation Finds Her • Aswang • Poetics Statement • To Decenter English • Acts of Poetry in Troubled Times: Barbara Jane Reyes’s Anticolonial Feminist Voicings, by Martin Joseph Ponce • ROBERTO TEJADA • Poems • from Exposition Park • Debris in Pink and Black • from Full Foreground • Untitled [Not a word of my surrounding] • Untitled [Impulse in the great organism of terror] • from Why the Assembly Disbanded • Kill Time Objective • Poetics Statement • The Acoustic Uncanny • Marginal Erotics: Roberto Tejada’s Sexiness, by David Colón • EDWIN TORRES • Poems • from The Po Pedology Of An Ambient Language • Dirtspeech • The Theorist Has No Samba! • Barrio/Barrier • from Yes Thing No Thing • Of Natural Disasters And Love • from Ameriscopia • And In Trying • Viva La Viva • from ’Dome’ • Poetics Statement • Bodycatch/Mindtrap: No Edge But In Things • The Us Is Porous: Edwin Torres in Other Words, by Urayoán Noel • Contributors • Index

Michael Dowdy is the author of Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization and Urbilly. He is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina.