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and practitioners of all racial and ethnic identities Examines social identity using a critical race theory framework Comprehensively analyzes all levels of racism

Thinking with the Poem Jennifer L Palmer How can Cleo find aBroad ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis's authorial interventions as a poet, scholar, and cultural critic steeped in the linguistic and political frames of her time. The writers included in this volume engage root level questions at the heart of DuPlessis's praxis as posed by her in a recent essay: ""What is a poem, what is a poet, what is an oeuvre, what is the 'poetic'?""