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EMBODIED AGENCY 53 Frequently groun
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people who manipulate them for viol
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EMBODIED AGENCY 65 Jesse Helms were
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Ramirez, / who after years of confi
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EMBODIED AGENCY 73 justice. These p
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EMBODIED AGENCY 75 the task of poet
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CHAPTER 2 Equivocal Agency Seems, m
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 79 events, the poe
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 81 reflecting but
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 83 trauma theory,
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 85 (Engelmann 46).
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 89 Simic’s terse
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 91 what Hannah Are
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 93 tongues.” The
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atrocities she writes about. Even s
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 99 Vietnam War—t
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 101 This move is p
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 103 Edward J. Brun
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He continues that “he had identif
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 111 and below). Th
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mandate or “solution” to make a
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EQUIVOCAL AGENCY 115 Simic’s poet
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CHAPTER 3 Migratory Agency Introduc
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 119 with his claim
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 121 the essences o
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 123 challenge the
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“English” poem disrupts “trad
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Poems of Migratory Agency MIGRATORY
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 129 but of nuestra
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 131 In this final
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 133 muertos. / Los
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 135 primary intere
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 137 comparing the
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argues that these Modernist poets
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 149 illuminates di
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MIGRATORY AGENCY 151 sadness. I cou
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CHAPTER 4 Contestatory Urban Agency
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CONTESTATORY URBAN AGENCY 155 their
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Conclusion Part One In this book I
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CONCLUSION 191 from what Muriel Ruk
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CONCLUSION 193 to evidentiary justi
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CONCLUSION 195 The debate about the
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CONCLUSION 197 For example, I write
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CONCLUSION 199 a citizen-poet becau
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Notes Introduction: Political Poetr
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For background on testimonio, see B
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16. See Ben Lee’s “ ‘Howl’
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NOTES 207 an epigraph indicate that
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enthusiastic for, and knowledgeable
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References Primary Sources: Printed
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Villatoro, Marcos McPeek. On Tuesda
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REFERENCES 217 Folsom, Ed and Cary
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REFERENCES 219 McKenna, Teresa. Mig
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REFERENCES 221 Shetley, Vernon. Aft
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Listening: Poetry and the Performed
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REFERENCES 225 Hansen, Miriam. Fore
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abstraction, 78-80, 87, 92-3, 101-2
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Coetzee, J.M., 198-9 Colás, Santia
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institutionalization of hip-hop, 2-
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esponsibility and poetry, 28-9, 60-