Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry humor now in its twenty fifth

now in its twenty fifth year

and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral

After reading this book

as well as for its imaginative transgressions against them

King's legacy at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis

Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry humor now in its twenty fifthBy Michael Leong Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? Contested Records analyzes how some of the most well known twenty first century North American poets work with fraught documents. Whether its the legal paperwork detailing the murder of 132 African captives, state transcriptions of the last