Category - Literary Criticism

Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth centu...

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jeri...

Using queer theory to untangle all types of nonnormative sexual identities, Tison Pugh uses Chaucer's work to expose the ongoing tension in the Mid...

When it was first released in 1982, When It Rains was one of the earliest published literary works in the O'odham language. Speakers from across ge...

This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either ...

Frances Harper was renowned in her lifetime not only as an activist who rallied on behalf of blacks, women, and the poor, but as a pioneer of the t...

Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary te...

"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpub...

James Weldon Johnson transforms seven inspiring spiritual sermons of African American preachers into poetry and equates the Black oral tradition ...

A Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals...

For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature...

An important voice in the "Third Generation" of contemporary Chinese poets--younger poets whose work emerged beginning in the late 1980s--Yang Ke h...

Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of di...

New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased...

Rich continues: Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a femini...

An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into t...