Liberation Poetry: An Anthology (The Anthology of Liberation Poetry)

This thirty-six-author anthology encompasses a wide spectrum of gender, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic and national backgrounds. Some authors are already well-known, some are emerging.This collection, whose introduction emphasizes the importance of a poetics of consciousness, resistance and liberation - as opposed to plasticity, formalism and elitist aesthetics -, is a great contribution to the meaning of poetry in society and its continual relevance as both soul-searching, inspirational medium and agent for fundamental change.