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Article: Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation.(Book review)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2005
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Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. Edited by Victoria Chang. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 194 pp. $19.95
If lyric poetry is the most introspective of all literary forms, the most remote from public and political concerns, how should we read lyric poems that come to us under the label of Asian American writing? Should we read a minority writer's embrace of the lyric as a sign of literary maturity, a transcending of narrowly ethnic concerns and political propaganda? Should we see it as a strategic withdrawal from society, following Adorno's dictum to read social pressures as "imprinted in reverse" on the lyric? Should we join those who would ...