Race and the avant-garde: experimental and Asian American poetry since 1965

Contents Acknowledgments xxx Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Contemporary Avant-Garde 1 1. Auto Poesy: Allen Ginsberg and the Politics of Poetry 000 2. Ron Silliman and the Ethnicization of the Avant-Garde 000 3. Inventing a Culture: Asian American Poetry in the 1970s 000 4. Audience Distant Relative: Reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 000 5. Mr. Moto's Monologue: John Yau and Experimental Asian American Writing 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000