id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6t5xji5avvhxhftntco4cjhunu DaMaris B. Hill Mirrors and Windows: Black Poetry in this Era 2017 13 .pdf application/pdf 5755 359 55 Gabbin contends that this exploration was expressed in the ways Black poets intensely explored voice in the waning years of a racially charged twentieth value to the work Black poetry is doing in American culture, it is essential to to honor the ways contemporary Black poets continue to use form and approach Citizen and Reginald Dwayne Betts's Bastards of the Reagan Era. Both collections of Black poetry rely heavily on visual awareness as a means of articulating poems using form and approach to emphasize how racism impacts Black people of American culture and serves as one way for readers to understand Black life to discussion about why certain collections of Black poetry are gaining recognition within American culture. I cannot discuss Black poetry and how it informs American cultural imagination without mentioning Lucille Clifton. The window and mirrors work that Betts and Rankine employ in their poetry articulates Blackness in a larger cultural economy. ./cache/work_6t5xji5avvhxhftntco4cjhunu.pdf ./txt/work_6t5xji5avvhxhftntco4cjhunu.txt